Historic Yosemite and Mariposa Links

The Southern Yosemite region, which includes Mariposa County and Oakhurst (Eastern Madera County), is home to many photographers, other artists and organizations engaged in promoting and selling their efforts. A number of organization are devoted to bringing information to visitors and residents about the environment of Yosemite, the Sierra and enhancing their time spent with us. This page presents links to a number of these artists and organizations where one can view work and receive information. Because change is constant, this cannot be a complete list, but through these connections one can make contacts that you will find pleasing.

Mariposa County Arts Council Gallery, Arts programs

Sierra Artists, Mariposa Gallery representing all artists

Mariposa County Chamber of Commerce

Mariposa County Tourism Bureau

Mariposa County Library
Repository for historic materials and source of photographs

Yosemite Association

Southern Yosemite Visitors Bureau

Heidi Vetter Photographer Gallery

Ira Estin Photographer

Dan Warsinger Photographer

William Neill Photographer

Howard Weamer Photographer

Christine White Loberg Photography

Images, Maps, and California History Sites

Mariposa County Courthouse

Gold Rush Exhibit

The California Gold Country - Hwy 49 Revisited

The Miner's Ten Commandments - Gold Rush Tour

Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
http://www.cprr.org/Museum/index.html
The Central Pacific began laying track eastward from Sacramento, California in 1863

California Views - Historic Image Collection
http://www.caviews.com/
Many images of the Central California Coast and Monterey

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/calheritage
This site contains thousands of scanned images taken from the Bancroft Library collection at UC Berkeley covering the history of California. It includes pictures of Gold Rush boom towns. The site's search engine makes finding images a breeze.

http://www.ccnet.com/~laplaza/calhist.htm
A nice overview of early California Gold Rush History through the Gold Rush era is available at this site.

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~scring/index.html
The full text of a journal kept by a Forty-Niner during his trip around Cape Horn to the gold fields of California is available here.

http://www.malakoff.com/vcgc.htm
Good, brief histories of the major towns that sprang up during the Gold Rush are available here.

http://www.getgold.com/150-links.htm
This site is full of information, including James Marshall's description of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848.

http://www.museumca.org/goldrush.html
The Oakland museum has put together a fantastic site, full of information on the people who came to find their fortune in California.

http://www.calgoldrush.com
This site, sponsored by the Sacramento Bee, has lots of information about the Gold Rush in the Sacramento Area.

If you're thinking of traveling in the Gold Country, the following sites might prove useful:

http://gocalif.ca.gov/guidebook/GC
This is the official page of the California Department of Tourism. It provides links to places of interest all over the state.

Amador County

Butte County

Calaveras County

El Dorado County

Mariposa County

Nevada County

Placer County

Plumas County

Siskiyou County

Trinity County

Tuolumne County