The third in a series on Groveland/Big Oak Flat's past featuring historic families and the businesses and services they provided to our community over the past 175 years. Illustrations by Irene Clark are being transferred to a Heritage Quilt, up for Live Auction at the 49er Festival on September 20, 2025.

The 2025 tourism season is officially upon us. September 20 may seem months away, but the 49er Festival Committee and our Community...

It was a year of action for the Yosemite Chamber. A year of raising our collective voice and getting action. A year of partnerships and...

This week’s 49er Festival Taste of Tuolumne is a double-feature. Around The Horn Brewing Company will be serving a Taste AND pouring...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Record temperatures and 50+ hours of power outages over the 4th of July weekend, 2023 caused a black-out along Highway 120 from Priest...

By Karen Davis, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society In our world today “laying in supplies” is...

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

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

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

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

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

By Harriet Codeglia The Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society (STCHS) was created in 1987 by a group of local residents who were...

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

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