This team and wagon, operated by the John R. Reed family of Orosi, CA, hauled lumber for the Comstock Mill in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California. Other farming families did the same. (Photo courtesy of Munn Reed)
Celebration marking the completion of the Mariposa Road to Yosemite Valley, in front of the two-story Coulter and Murphy Hotel, with about thirty people standing and seated along porch and near road; "Welcome Mariposa Road 1875" printed on a tall…
Residents of Visalia, CA, on October 8, 1952, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the settling of their city, as well as the arrival of the first Butterfield Stage. From left to right are Mrs. Tom Crowe, historian Annie Mitchell, and Debe Mitchell.