Forty-seven students and others standing and seated beside White Rock School, Mariposa County, circa 1890; Stella Smith Cunningham, second row, third from left; Augustus Conway Smith, school trustee, back row, second from left; Josephine James Smith,…
This was the site of the White River Station on the Butterfield Overland State Route from 1858 to 1881. The tamarask tree in the left foreground was in the inn yard in 1870 at this "telegraph crossing" of the White River.
"""Robbers' Gold"" is the focus of legends surrounding the large sycamore tree at left at the site of the White River State Station of the Butterfield Overland Stage Route used from 1858 to 1881. The tamarask tree in the right foreground was in the…