California, Siskiyou County, near Fort Jones
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The Meamber School District was formed in May, 1870. Land for the schoolhouse and grounds was donated by what was then the Goodale Ranch.
For the next 87 years, children of the area were educated in the Meamber schoolhouse from first through eight grades.
In June 1957, the Meamber School District was absorbed by the Fort Jones School District, and the property reverted to private ownership.
In 1979, the schoolhouse exterior was restored, and the interior was remodeled, for use as a private residence.
Dedicated August 17, 1980
Humbug Chapter No. 73
E Clampus Vitus
(Education) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
The Meamber School District was formed in May, 1870. Land for the schoolhouse and grounds was donated by what was then the Goodale Ranch. For the next 87 years, children of the area were educated in the Meamber schoolhouse from first through eight grades.
In June 1957, the Meamber School District was absorbed by the Fort Jones School District, and the property reverted to private ownership.
In 1979, the schoolhouse exterior was restored, and the interior was remodeled, for use as a private residence.
Dedicated August 17, 1980
Humbug Chapter No. 73
E Clampus Vitus
(Education) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Originated in 1851
The discovery of gold in the early 1850’s brought miners, businessmen and the army to this valley, with the army establishing a post in 1852. 
Crystal Creek Methodist Church was organized July 1, 1854. Among the dearest memories of the Old Log Church are those of the pioneers of Crystal Creek Sanitary Association organized in 1863, for relief work during the Civil War. The Old Log Church burned in 1872. 
Since 1949, more nuclear reactors – over 50 of them – have been built on this plain than anywhere else in the world.
When its water is not diverted for upstream irrigation, Lost River flows past here into a sink 14 miles to the northeast.
At the junction of the Rocky Bar Road with the Oregon Trail, this was a major stage line stop for 20 years.
Harriet’s Chapel stood in the center of the Confederate line. A heavily wooded wetland stood in front of the line. Behind it was the Neuse River. Three regiments of infantry and two batteries of artillery held this portion of the Confederate line.
A large swamp separated the advancing Union army and the Confederate defenders one-half mile north. Described by one Union soldier as, “difficult to cross, and densely covered with a growth of small trees and pine,” the swamp slowed the Union advance and provided cover for the Confederates.
To Honor and Remember
Twenty-four guns of the 3rd New York Artillery supported Gen. Wessells’ infantry as they advanced through the swamp toward the Confederate line. The overwhelming firepower of Union infantry and artillery eventually forced the Confederates to abandon the line and fall back to Jones Bridge.
In front of you is the position held by Capt. Joseph B. Starr’s Battery. Starr’s Battery defended this position against the Union advance on December 14. Finally, his ammunition exhausted, Starr withdrew across the Neuse River.
Confederate ironclad, built at Whitehall and floated down the Neuse. Grounded and burned by Confederates in 1865. Remains one block N.
A hero of the fight for Fort Fisher is buried here in the churchyard. Pvt. Christopher C. “Kit” Bland, Battery K, 2nd North Carolina Artillery, was serving at the fort, the “Gibraltar of the Confederacy,” when Federal forces began their bombardment on December 24, 1864. The Union fleet concentrated its fire on the garrison flag flying over Battery Pulpit, headquarters of Col. William Lamb, the fort’s commander. Lamb, hoping to refocus the bombardment to a point less essential to the post’s defense, ordered Mound Battery, at the southern end of the fort, to raise the flag. When Capt. Daniel Munn, commanding there, asked for a volunteer, Bland stepped forward. He climbed the bare flagpole amid the shelling and tied the flag to the top. As Lamb had hoped, much of the Federal fire shifted to Mound Battery, eventually tearing the flag loose. Once again, to the admiration of all who saw it, Bland climbed the pole and secured the flag using his neckerchief. On his way down, a shell passed so close to him that it brushed his hair.
To commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the first settlement on the shores of Lake Monroe named Fort Mellon in memory of Captain Charles Mellon who died in defense of the fort: subsequently known as Mellonville and later Sanford.
Erected in honor of Sir James Hector K. C. M. C. Geologist and explorer to the Palliser Expedition of 1857 - 1860 by his friends in Canada, the United States & England. One of the earliest scientists to explore the Canadian Rocky Mountains. He discovered the Kicking Horse Pass through which the Canadian Pacific Railway now runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.
