Historic Sites, California
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- Allensworth Historic District — Historic · Tulare County, CA
Allensworth Historic District is a historic district in Tulare County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, recognized for signifi…
- Alviso Historic District — Historic · Santa Clara County, CA
Alviso Historic District is a historic district in Santa Clara County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, recognized for signifi…
- Amador City — Historic · Amador County, CA
One of California’s smallest incorporated cities and a classic Mother Lode gold-rush main street on Old Highway 49 between Sutter Creek and Drytown. Founded …
- Arena Cove Historic District — Historic · Mendocino County, CA
Arena Cove Historic District is a historic district in Mendocino County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, recognized for signi…
- Ashford Mill — Historic · Inyo County, CA
Concrete ruins of a short-lived Death Valley gold mill and office on the valley floor off Badwater Road. Ore came from the Ashford Mine high in the Black Mou…
- Asphalto — Historic · Kern County, CA
Historical asphaltum / oil-country settlement on the west side of the southern San Joaquin Valley near the McKittrick–Taft mineral belt. A field-history pin …
- Black Diamond Mines (Somersville) — Historic · Contra Costa County, CA
Heart of California’s largest 19th-century coal field, now inside East Bay Regional Park District’s Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. Somersville was on…
- Bombay Beach — Historic · Imperial County, CA
Faded Salton Sea resort town on the northeast shore that boomed mid-century and later became a surreal open-air art and ruinscape of half-buried trailers, pi…
- Burro Schmidt Tunnel — Historic · Kern County, CA
Half-mile hand-dug tunnel through solid granite in the El Paso Mountains — one man, pick and dynamite, 1906–1938. NRHP-listed desert oddity overlooking Fremo…
- Chiriaco Summit — Historic · Riverside County, CA
I-10 desert summit community built around the General Patton Memorial Museum and the former Desert Training Center / Camp Young logistics corridor. The museu…
- Coloma — Historic · El Dorado County, CA
Coloma is a historic district in El Dorado County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, recognized for significance in industry; e…
- Columbia Historic District — Historic · Tuolumne County, CA
Columbia Historic District is a historic district in Tuolumne County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, recognized for signific…
- Conway Summit — Historic · Mono County, CA
Highest point on U.S. Highway 395 (~8,143 ft) between Bridgeport and Mono Lake, with a signed Mono Lake Scenic Viewpoint that opens a classic Eastern Sierra …
- Cottonwood Historic District — Historic · Shasta County, CA
Cottonwood Historic District is a historic district in Shasta County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, recognized for signific…
- Death Valley Junction (Amargosa Opera House) — Historic · Inyo County, CA
Former Pacific Coast Borax company town and rail junction on the Amargosa Desert, centered on Marta Becket’s legendary hand-painted Amargosa Opera House — ad…
- Dumont — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Historical Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad siding and desert place near the Amargosa River approaches to Dumont Dunes. A thin rail-era historic pin for the T&T …
- Dutch Flat Historic District — Historic · Placer County, CA
Dutch Flat Historic District is a historic district in Placer County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, recognized for signific…
- Elk Grove Historic District — Historic · Sacramento County, CA
Elk Grove Historic District is a historic district in Sacramento County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, recognized for signi…
- Eureka Historic District — Historic · Humboldt County, CA
Eureka Historic District is a historic district in Humboldt County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991, recognized for significan…
- Fernbridge — Historic · Humboldt County, CA
Fernbridge is a historic structure in Humboldt County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, recognized for significance in enginee…
- Fiddletown — Historic · Amador County, CA
Fiddletown is a historic district in Amador County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, recognized for significance in exploratio…
- Fort Piute — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Stone ruins of a short-lived U.S. Army outpost (1866–1867) built to protect mail and emigrants on the Mojave Road, set above rare perennial Piute Creek on th…
- French Gulch Historic District — Historic · Shasta County, CA
French Gulch Historic District is a historic district in Shasta County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, recognized for signif…
- Ghost Mountain (Yaquitepec) — Historic · San Diego County, CA
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park trailhead and short steep hike to the adobe ruins of Yaquitepec—Marshal and Tanya South’s 1930s–1940s experiment in primitive …
- Goffs — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Former AT&SF / National Old Trails Road and Route 66 railroad community at the eastern edge of Mojave National Preserve country. The restored 1914 Goffs Scho…
- Greenmeadow — Historic · Santa Clara County, CA
Greenmeadow is a historic district in Santa Clara County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, recognized for significance in arch…
- Halcyon Historic District — Historic · San Luis Obispo County, CA
Halcyon Historic District is a historic district in San Luis Obispo County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017, recognized for si…
- Harmony Borax Works — Historic · Death Valley, CA
Ruins of the operation that launched the famous 20-mule team borax wagons in 1883. Original processing vats and equipment remain near Furnace Creek in an eas…
- Highland Historic District — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Highland Historic District is a historic district in San Bernardino County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, recognized for si…
- Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park — Historic · Amador County, CA
California State Historic Park (Chaw'se) in the Sierra foothills near Pine Grove preserving North America's largest collection of bedrock mortars—about 1,185…
- Jackson Square Historic District — Historic · San Francisco County, CA
Jackson Square Historic District is a historic district in San Francisco County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, recognized f…
- John Muir National Historic Site — Historic · Contra Costa County, CA
National Park Service unit in Martinez preserving the 1882–1914 home, orchards, and part of the fruit ranch of naturalist and conservationist John Muir — oft…
- Keane Wonder Mine — Historic · Inyo County, CA
Death Valley gold camp (discovered 1903; boom 1907–1912) famous for a mile-long aerial tramway that dropped ore 1,500 ft from the upper mine to the mill. NPS…
- Kelso Depot — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Restored 1924 Union Pacific Spanish-Revival depot that anchors Mojave National Preserve’s main visitor center in the ghost railroad town of Kelso. Exhibits c…
- Knights Ferry — Historic · Stanislaus County, CA
Knights Ferry is a historic district in Stanislaus County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, recognized for significance in oth…
- Kuchamaa — Historic · San Diego County, CA
Kuuchamaa (also Tecate Peak) is a sacred Kumeyaay mountain on the San Diego–Baja California border, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 199…
- Laws Railroad Museum — Historic · Inyo County, CA
Preserved 1883 narrow-gauge depot and historic yard of the Carson & Colorado / Southern Pacific line at Laws, a few miles northeast of Bishop. Outdoor museum…
- Lewiston Historic District — Historic · Trinity County, CA
Lewiston Historic District is a historic district in Trinity County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, recognized for significa…
- Little Tokyo Historic District — Historic · Los Angeles County, CA
Little Tokyo Historic District is a historic district in Los Angeles County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, recognized for s…
- Locke Historic District — Historic · Sacramento County, CA
Locke Historic District is a historic district in Sacramento County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, recognized for significa…
- Lost Horse Mine — Historic · Riverside County, CA
One of Joshua Tree National Park’s most successful historic gold mines (operated roughly 1893–1936; reported production over 9,000 ounces of gold). A maintai…
- Ludlow — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Mojave Desert railroad and Route 66 settlement founded in 1882 as an Atlantic & Pacific water stop, later southern railhead for the Tonopah & Tidewater and n…
- Malibu Historic District — Historic · Los Angeles County, CA
Malibu Historic District is a historic district in Los Angeles County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018, recognized for signifi…
- Mammoth Consolidated Mine — Historic · Mono County, CA
A short interpretive trail at the Coldwater Creek trailhead in the Mammoth Lakes Basin leads to Arch Mahan’s 1927–1933 gold-mining camp, preserved by Inyo Na…
- Manzanar National Historic Site — Historic · Inyo County, CA
NPS unit interpreting the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Manzanar War Relocation Center on the floor of Owens Valley. The visitor center, re…
- Mar Vista Gardens — Historic · Los Angeles County, CA
Mar Vista Gardens is a historic district in Los Angeles County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018, recognized for significance i…
- March Field Historic District — Historic · Riverside County, CA
March Field Historic District is a historic district in Riverside County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, recognized for sign…
- Marl Spring — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Key water stop on the historic Mojave Road (Old Government Road) inside Mojave National Preserve — a sparse desert spring with concrete trough remains that s…
- McCloud — Historic · Siskiyou County, CA
McCloud is a historic district in Siskiyou County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, recognized for significance in industry; c…
- Mineral King Road Cultural Landscape — Historic · Tulare County, CA
Mineral King Road Cultural Landscape is a historic district in Tulare County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, recognized for …
- Mono County Courthouse — Historic · Mono County, CA
Italianate county courthouse on Main Street in Bridgeport, completed in 1880 and still one of California’s oldest continuously operating county courthouses. …
- Mono Mills — Historic · Mono County, CA
1880s lumber camp and sawmill that fed Bodie’s mines via the narrow-gauge Bodie & Benton Railway. At peak nearly 45,000 cords of wood per year left the Jeffr…
- New Almaden — Historic · Santa Clara County, CA
New Almaden is a historic district in Santa Clara County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, recognized for significance in indu…
- New Helvetia Historic District — Historic · Sacramento County, CA
New Helvetia Historic District is a historic district in Sacramento County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014, recognized for si…
- Nipton — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Tiny Ivanpah Valley railroad town founded 1905 on the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad (later Union Pacific), on the NE edge of Mojave National Pr…
- Oasis of Mara — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Native California fan palm oasis at the Joshua Tree National Park Oasis Visitor Center in Twentynine Palms—long used by Serrano and Chemehuevi peoples, later…
- Old Plank Road — Historic · Imperial County, CA
Remnants of the 1915 wooden plank road that once carried early motorists eight-by-twelve-foot sections across the shifting Algodones (Imperial) Sand Dunes—Ca…
- Old Town San Diego Historic District — Historic · San Diego County, CA
Old Town San Diego Historic District is a historic district in San Diego County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, recognized f…
- Point Fermin Historic District — Historic · Los Angeles County, CA
Point Fermin Historic District is a historic district in Los Angeles County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021, recognized for s…
- Point Richmond Historic District — Historic · Contra Costa County, CA
Point Richmond Historic District is a historic district in Contra Costa County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, recognized fo…
- Poppy Peak Historic District — Historic · Los Angeles County, CA
Poppy Peak Historic District is a historic district in Los Angeles County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, recognized for sig…
- Port Costa — Historic · Contra Costa County, CA
Tiny historic Carquinez Strait waterfront town that boomed in the late 19th century as a grain-shipping and rail transfer port opposite Benicia. Brick wareho…
- Professorville Historic District — Historic · Santa Clara County, CA
Professorville Historic District is a historic district in Santa Clara County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, recognized for…
- Robbers Roost — Historic · Kern County, CA
Jagged BLM rock formation (also Bandit Rock) in the Scodie Mountains overlooking Indian Wells Valley. 19th-century stage-route lookout associated with the Ti…
- Rock Spring — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Reliable Mojave Road water stop inside Mojave National Preserve: Bert Smith’s 1929 Rock House, 1930s mill ruins, Camp Rock Spring army outpost site (1860s), …
- Salvation Mountain — Historic · Imperial County, CA
Leonard Knight’s enormous adobe-and-paint folk-art mountain outside Niland proclaiming “God Is Love” — a public desert art landmark on the edge of Slab City …
- Scotty's Castle — Historic · Death Valley, CA
Spanish Mediterranean mansion built in the 1920s by Chicago millionaire Albert Johnson. A 2015 flash flood buried a 1900s automobile in sediment and severely…
- Shasta State Historic Park — Historic · Shasta County, CA
Shasta State Historic Park is a historic district in Shasta County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, recognized for significan…
- Smiley Park Historic District — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Smiley Park Historic District is a historic district in San Bernardino County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, recognized for…
- South Pasadena Historic District — Historic · Los Angeles County, CA
South Pasadena Historic District is a historic district in Los Angeles County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, recognized for…
- Teakettle Junction — Historic · Inyo County, CA
Iconic Death Valley road junction on the washboard Racetrack Valley Road where routes to the Racetrack Playa, Hunter Mountain, and Ubehebe meet. Visitors han…
- Vallecito Stage Station — Historic · San Diego County, CA
Restored Butterfield Overland Mail and Southern Emigrant Trail stage station at a Colorado Desert oasis in Vallecito Valley, Anza-Borrego country. The site l…
- View Park Historic District — Historic · Los Angeles County, CA
View Park Historic District is a historic district in Los Angeles County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016, recognized for sign…
- Volcano — Historic · Amador County, CA
Picturesque Mother Lode gold town in a bowl-shaped valley (miners thought it a volcanic crater). Settled 1848–49 (Soldiers Gulch); by the 1850s a full camp w…
- Walker Pass — Historic · Kern County, CA
National Historic Landmark and California Historical Landmark on SR-178 at the southern Sierra Crest (5,250 ft). Joseph R. Walker charted the pass in 1834; l…
- Weaverville Historic District — Historic · Trinity County, CA
Weaverville Historic District is a historic district in Trinity County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, recognized for signif…
- Whitley Heights Historic District — Historic · Los Angeles County, CA
Whitley Heights Historic District is a historic district in Los Angeles County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, recognized fo…
- Wildrose Charcoal Kilns — Historic · Inyo County, CA
Ten beehive-shaped stone kilns lined up in upper Wildrose Canyon inside Death Valley National Park—among the best-preserved charcoal kilns in the West. Built…
- Yosemite Valley — Historic · Mariposa County, CA
Yosemite Valley is a historic district in Mariposa County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, recognized for significance in lan…
- Zzyzx — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Desert health-spa resort built by radio evangelist Curtis Howe Springer from the 1940s on the shore of Soda Dry Lake, later reclaimed and operated as the Cal…