Taking You Back in History: Priest Hotel Part II
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
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...
Scott Belser
- Oct 26
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...
Scott Belser
- Oct 11
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...
Yosemite Chamber
- Aug 10
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...
Karen Davis
- Jul 27
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 16
4th of July Black-Out: Hwy 120 Businesses Back GCSD
Record temperatures and 50+ hours of power outages over the 4th of July weekend, 2023 caused a black-out along Highway 120 from Priest...
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- Jul 13
Taking You Back in History: Securing Basic Needs Part 1
By Karen Davis, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society In our world today “laying in supplies” is...
Kathy Brown
- Jun 29
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 8
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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- May 25
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 11
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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- Apr 6
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...
Yosemite Chamber
- Mar 22
About STCHS
By Harriet Codeglia The Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society (STCHS) was created in 1987 by a group of local residents who were...
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- Jan 25
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...
Yosemite Chamber
- Jan 12
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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- Dec 8, 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...
Yosemite Chamber
- Nov 23, 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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- Oct 13, 2022
Taking You Back in History: Ghosts of Hotels Past, Part 1
By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society Can you name Garrote's very first hotel?...
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- Sep 29, 2022
Taking You Back in History: Chalk Board Days Part 2
By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society The first segment of “Chalk Board Days”...
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