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Taking You Back in History: Life at Priest Hotel

By Margaret Corcoran Anker courtesy of Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society This month Taking You Back in History is sharing The...

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Nov 9, 2023

Taking You Back in History: Strong Women of Tuolumne County in the Gold Rush (and Beyond) - Part II

By Scott Belser, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society A short-lived revival in gold mining...

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Oct 26, 2023

Taking You Back in History: Strong Women of Tuolumne County in the Gold Rush (and Beyond) - Part 1

By Scott Belser, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society Throughout history many wise people have...

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Oct 11, 2023

Taking You Back in History: The Big Ditch and The Big Gap

Written by Ted Carlsen for STCHS Newsletter, July 1988 “During the gold era of Groveland and Big Oak Flat, water, much needed by the...

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Aug 10, 2023

Taking You Back in History: Securing Basic Needs Part 2

By Karen Davis, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society Brothers Albert and August Mack were also...

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Jul 27, 2023

Why Did They Name It That? Area Street Names Part 2

By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society Information on our area street names and...

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Jun 29, 2023

Why Did They Name It That? Area Street Names, Part 1

By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society During the early days of the 1849 Gold Rush...

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Jun 8, 2023

Taking You Back in History: Memorial Day Part 2

By Karen Davis, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society The oldest burial place in our locale is...

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May 25, 2023

Taking You Back in History: Memorial Day Part 1

By Karen Davis, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society It was May 30th 1868 that Memorial Day was...

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May 11, 2023

Taking You Back in History: Headquartering Hetch Hetchy Part 2

By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society Aside from worker's housing and...

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Apr 20, 2023

Taking You Back in History: Headquartering Hetch Hetchy

By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society Soon after San Francisco selected the...

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Apr 6, 2023

From Dream to Reality: Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum

By Harriet Codeglia, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about...

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Mar 7, 2023

Taking You Back in History: Look Out for Water, Part 2

By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society In the foothill districts of the Sierra...

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Feb 21, 2023

Taking You Back in History: Big Oak Flat Fire of 1863, Part 2

By Scott Belser, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society The fire of October 1863 was an...

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Jan 25, 2023

Taking You Back in History: Big Oak Flat Fire of 1863, Part 1

By Scott Belser, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society For many coming to Yosemite and Groveland,...

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Jan 12, 2023

Taking You Back in History: A Snapshot in Time, Part 2

Republication of Jean McClish's 1975 article on the centennial of Groveland's renaming and our downtown history continues. “1901 found...

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Dec 21, 2022

Taking You Back in History: A Snapshot in Time, Part 1

This month's Taking You Back in History shares a previously written historical article which presents a snapshot in time of Groveland's...

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Dec 8, 2022

Taking You Back in History: Talking Turkey Part II

By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society When the earliest gold miners came to this...

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Nov 23, 2022

Taking You Back in History: Talking Turkey Part I

By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society With Thanksgiving fast approaching, this...

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Nov 10, 2022

Taking You Back in History: Ghosts of Hotels Past Part 2

By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society The first part of this article covered the...

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Oct 27, 2022