Yreka, California

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Miners at Thompson Dry Diggins 1851

Original notes with daguerreotype, Abraham Thompson (on left) and partners using a long tom at Thompsons Dry Diggings on Yreka Flats. Thompson's discovery of gold here in March, 1851 started the gold rush to Siskiyou County.

Main Street - Yreka, California

Yreka branch of the Etna Brewery ca. 1890

Clarendon Hotel Yreka, California ca. 1897

Siskiyou High School - Yreka, California ca. 1894

Miners at the Blue Gravel Mine - Yreka, California ca. 1890 (colorized image)

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Franco American Hotel Building - Yreka

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From a narrow, two story brick house in the 1850's, to an expansive hotel with a 167 foot frontage, the Franco American Hotel became one of the largest and finest inns in Northern California. Started by the Frenchman Leon Marniesse in 1855, the hotel housed a restaurant, Wells Fargo and Company Express Office, saloon and other businesses, and was a well-known stage stop. Through the years improvements consisted if a "piazza" or balcony across the front, additional suites of sleeping rooms upstairs and a two story brick dining room. Among prominent hotel guests were Vice President Colfax, General and Mrs. Philip Sheridan and President Hayes.

Franco American Hotel Building - Yreka

Sign on building reads:

From a narrow, two story brick house in the 1850's, to an expansive hotel with a 167 foot frontage, the Franco American Hotel became one of the largest and finest inns in Northern California. Started by the Frenchman Leon Marniesse in 1855, the hotel housed a restaurant, Wells Fargo and Company Express Office, saloon and other businesses, and was a well-known stage stop. Through the years improvements consisted if a Ã’piazza" or balcony across the front, additional suites of sleeping rooms upstairs and a two story brick dining room. Among prominent hotel guests were Vice President Colfax, General and Mrs. Philip Sheridan and President Hayes.

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City Meat Market

Built in 1854
This market has been in continuous operation since its construction and is one of the oldest in California.

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