The first 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.

Heritage Quilt Slated for 49er Festival Live Auction Irene Clark's 1970's pen-and-ink illustrations were resized to 8x8 inches, converted...

Access to Yosemite Valley in the 1800s was an ordeal and an opportunity, especially for businesses along Big Oak Flat Road.

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

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

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

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

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

By Kathy Brown, Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum/Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society Can you name Garrote's very first hotel?...