WM. BULL MEEK – WM. MORRIS STEWART CHAPTER NO. 10 (Wm. Bull Meek Chapter No. 10, chartered 1936. Wm. Morris Stewart Chapter 8591, chartered 1958. Chapter consolidation, 1962) (Nevada, Yuba and Sutter Counties.) #2 William Bull Meek plaque in Camptonville. #1 Name: First Fire Department. Location: On the firehouse in North San Juan, Nevada #3 Name: Donner Camp Site. County. Location: Alder Creek, Hwy. 89, north of Truckee, Wording: Nevada County. Wording: FIRST FIRE DEPARTMENT DONNER CAMP SITE IN COMMEMORATION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THIS FIRE STATION IN ON OCTOBER 20, 1846, THE SIX COVERED 1864 – GEORGE S. MURPHY, FIRST FIRE CHIEF. WAGONS BROUGHT WEST BY GEORGE AND JACOB DONNER AND THEIR PRESENTED BY WILLIAM BULL MEEK FAMILIES HALTED HERE FOR REPAIRS. BY CHAPTER NO. 10, MARCH OF 1847, ONE HALF OF THE E CLAMPUS VITUS, MAY 13, 1939 PARTY OF 22 ADULTS AND CHILDREN HAD DIED OF STARVATION AND COLD. Notes: This plaque has been lost (wording above is from THEY CAME WEST SEEKING A NEW LIFE. invoice of M. Greenberg’s Sons Foundry in San Francisco, THEY FOUND MISERY AND DEATH. dated May 10, 1939. Total cost of plaque - $23.18) and a new plaque was re-dedicated on October 4, 1975. THIS MONUMENT DEDICATED BY WM. M. STEWART CHAPTER ECV #2 Name: William Bull Meek. NEVADA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Location: In the town square in Camptonville, Yuba TAHOE NATIONAL FOREST USFS County. TRUCKEE – DONNER CHAMBER OF Wording: COMMERCE IMOGENE CHAPTER 134, WILLIAM BULL MEEK SIERRAVILLE OCTOBER 16, 1960 TO CLAMPATRIARCH WILLIAM BULL MEEK, STAGE DRIVER - WELLS FARGO AGENT - MULE SKINNER - TEAMSTER - MERCHANT. ERECTED BY WM. BULL MEEK CHAPTER NO. 10, E CLAMPUS VITUS, MAY 6, 1956 #3 Donner Campsite. TRASH Trek, July 1975 Notes: Wm. Morris Stewart Chapter 8591 was established in 1958, and also went into the plaque business, in this case in collaboration with other historically minded groups. #5 Name: Webber Lake Hotel. They only placed a couple of plaques in their four-year Location: On the hotel at Webber Lake, Nevada existence, but their members provided much impetus for the County. later plaques of Meek-Stewart Chap. 10. Wording: #4 Name: General Edward F. Beale. WEBBER LAKE HOTEL Location: Near administration building, Beale Air Force Base, Yuba County. WEBBER LAKE HOTEL. BUILT IN 1860 BY DR. Wording: DAVID GOULD WEBBER, THE LAST OF 30 HOSTELRIES ALONG THE HISTORIC GENERAL EDWARD F. BEALE HENNESS PASS ROAD. HONORING GENERAL EDWARD F. BEALE, MARKER PLACED BY WM. M. STEWART CH. EXPLORER OF THE WEST, FOUNDER OF OF CALIFORNIA, FIRST TO CARRY E CLAMPUS VITUS. CALIFORNIAʹS GOLD EAST. PURCHASED CAMELS FOR THE Notes: The Webber Lake plaque is a wooden plaque with U.S. ARMY, HERO OF THE MEXICAN WAR. routed letters, placed on Sept. 10, 1961. BEALE AIR FORCE BASE NAMED IN HIS HONOR. #6 Name: National Exchange Hotel, 1854. Location: On the hotel at 211 Broad St., Nevada City, ERECTED BY WILLIAM BULL MEEK Nevada County. CHAPTER 10 Wording: E CLAMPUS VITUS, INC., ROUGH AND READY, CALIFORNIA NATIONAL EXCHANGE HOTEL, 1854 ORIGINALLY THE BICKNELL BLOCK. STAGECOACH, MAIL, EXPRESS AND TELEGRAPH CENTER IN MINING DAYS. COMPANIES WHICH BECAME PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC CO. FORMED HERE. SITE OF FIRST WHIPPING POST IN STATE. FACADE UNCHANGED SINCE 1854. PLACED BY WM. BULL MEEK - WM. MORRIS STEWART CHAPTER NO. 10, E CLAMPUS VITUS, MAY 5, 1963. #4 Gen. Beale plaque Dedication. Left to Right: Col. Miles Price, Lt. Col. Joe Brown and Edgar Dutton. Photo by J.D. Woodworth. The Gen. Beale plaque was placed in 1959, and was the last to be placed by the Meek Chapter before its merger with the #6 National Hotel in Nevada City Stewart Chapter in 1962. #7 Name: North San Juan - 1853 Location: On the building on Hwy. 49 in North San Juan, Yuba County, California. Wording: NORTH SAN JUAN 1853 DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE FOUNDER, CHRISTIAN KEINZ AND TO ALL THE PIONEER ARGONAUTS OF SAN JUAN RIDGE, WHO BY THEIR LABOR AND FORTITUDE CONTRIBUTED SO GREATLY TO #8 Wm. Morris Stewart Mansion. THE WEALTH AND ECONOMY ON NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA AND THE NATION. #9 Name: North Bloomfield Drain Tunnel. Location: Along the road in North Bloomfield, PLACED BY Nevada County. WM. BULL MEEK - WM. MORRIS STEWART Wording: CHAPTER 10 E CLAMPUS VITUS NORTH BLOOMFIELD DRAIN TUNNEL OCTOBER 12, 1963 ONE OF THE GREAT ENGINEERING FEATS IN #8 Name: William Morris Stewart Mansion. NEVADA COUNTY HYDRAULIC MINING Location: On 2 1/2 ton granite rock in front of house at HISTORY WAS THE DRILLING OF THE 7784 416 Zion Street, Nevada City, Nevada County. FOOT DRAIN TUNNEL. Wording: THE PROJECT WAS ENGINEERED BY HAMILTON SMITH IN THE MALAKOFF MINE WILLIAM MORRIS STEWART MANSION AREA. BUILT 1855-56. EIGHT VERTICAL SHAFTS - OF MORE THAN 200 FEET DEPTH EACH INTERSECTED IN THE EXACT REPLICA OF WIFE’S ANTE-BELLUM LONG DRAIN TUNNEL. COLONIAL BIRTHPLACE. ONLY EDIFICE THE PROGRAM WAS STARTED IN APRIL, 1872 OF THIS TYPE IN CALIFORNIA. STEWART, AND TOOK 30 MONTHS TO COMPLETE. AN EARLY NEVADA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY, JOINED 1859 COMSTOCK TAHOE NATIONAL FOREST SILVER RUSH, LED BATTLE FOR STATEHOOD AND BECAME NEVADA’S FIRST U.S. SENATOR, SERVED 29 YEARS. KNOWN AS THE SILVER SENATOR AND FATHER OF AMERICAN MINING LAW. AUTHORED 15TH CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. DEDICATED MARCH 7, 1964 WM. BULL MEEK - WM. MORRIS STEWART NO. 10, E CLAMPUS VITUS #9 Dedication of North Bloomfield Drain Tunnel. Left to NEVADA CITY, NEVADA CO. CALIFORNIA- right: Riley W. (Wad) Young, Bill Byars (obscured) Herb NEVADA CENTENNIAL COMMISSION ON Gerrish and Pudgy Altman. OBSERVANCE OF NEVADA STATE CENTENNIAL This was a large wooden plaque. The plaque did not last 1864 -1964 long and was replaced by a bronze plaque on October 3, 1981. The new plaque, however, was erroneously titled: David Ingerfield John Wood, and that Nyes Crossing could Hiller Tunnel. A new wooden plaque, very much like the have been at another location. See newspaper article in original, is now stationed at the entrance to the path Regional Section of The Union, Grass Valley - Nevada leading to the tunnel. City, July 2, 1992. The newspaper article is in error about the ranger’s name! (Just how much confusion about history #10 Name: Bridgeport (Nyeʹs Crossing) can be traced to errors such as these?) Covered Bridge CALIFORNIA REGISTERED HISTORICAL #11 Name: 1864 - The Union - 1964 Grass Valley LANDMARK 390. - Nevada City Location: Nevada County at crossing of Pleasant Location: Inside the lobby, 11464 Sutton Way, Grass Valley Road over the South Yuba River. Valley, Nevada County, California. Wording: Wording: BRIDGEPORT (NYEʹS CROSSING) COVERED 1864 - THE UNION - 1964 BRIDGE GRASS VALLEY - NEVADA CITY BUILT IN 1862 BY DAVID ISAAC JOHNWOOD* OF THE MANY HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS WITH LUMBER FROM HIS MILL IN SIERRA STARTED IN THE NORTHERN MINES OF THE COUNTY, THIS BRIDGE WAS PART OF THE GREAT MOTHER LODE DURING THE VIRGINIA TURNPIKE COMPANY TOLL ROAD FAMOUS GOLD RUSH ERA, ONLY THE UNION WHICH SERVED THE NORTHERN MINES AND OF GRASS VALLEY AND NEVADA CITY THE BUSY NEVADA COMSTOCK LODE. EMERGED A SUCCESSFUL DAILY PUBLISHED UTILIZING A COMBINATION TRUSS AND FOR 100 YEARS. BORN IN CRITICAL TIMES - ARCH CONSTRUCTION, IT IS ONE OF THE CIVIL WAR AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION - OLDEST HOUSED SPANS IN THE WEST AND THE UNION HAS EVER STRIVED FOR UNITY THE LONGEST SINGLE SPAN, WOOD AND HAS EVOLVED AN INDEPENDENT COVERED BRIDGE IN THE UNITED STATES. VOICE SUPPORTING MAN AND MEASURE OVER PARTISANSHIP. THE UNION IS ONLY CALIFORNIA REGISTERED HISTORICAL THE SEVENTH DAILY NEWSPAPER IN LANDMARK NO. 390 CALIFORNIA TO CELEBRATE ITS CENTENNIAL UNDER THE ORIGINAL NAME. PLAQUE PLACED BY THE CALIFORNIA STATE CENTENNIAL DATE - OCTOBER 28, 1964 PARK COMMISSION IN COOPERATION WITH THE NEVADA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY WM. BULL MEEK - WM. MORRIS STEWART AND THE WM. B. MEEK - WM. M. STEWART CHAPTER 10 CHAPTER NO. 10, E CLAMPUS VITUS, MAY 23, E CLAMPUS VITUS 1964 NEVADA CITY, NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Notes: Plaque was originally placed on the building in Grass Valley housing The Union’s offices. A few years after our dedication, The Union moved to their new office on Sutton Way, and the plaque was relocated there. #12 Name: Nevada Hose Co. No. 1 Location: North side of Main St. near corner of Union St, Nevada City, Nevada County. Wording: NEVADA HOSE CO. NO. 1 #10 Bridgeport Covered Bridge. OCCUPIED THIS FIREHOUSE FROM MAY 30, 1861 TO 1938. HAND PULLED HOSE CARTS, Notes: Questions have risen as to the true name of builder. HORSE DRAWN ENGINES AND MOTORIZED Mike Smittle, Park Ranger at Bridgeport says builder was PUMPERS ALL ROLLED OUT OF THIS CITY, CALIFORNIA. BUILDING TO SAVE LIFE AND PROPERTY. #14 Name: Holbrooke Hotel WM. BULL MEEK Location: On the hotel at 212 W. Main Street, Grass WM. MORRIS STEWART Valley, Nevada County. CHAPTER NO. 10 Wording: E CLAMPUS VITUS MAY 8, 1965 HOLBROOKE HOTEL FOUNDED 1851 CALIFORNIA’S OLDEST HOTEL IN CONTINUOUS OPERATION. AMONG ITS CENTURY - OLD ARCHIVES ARE NAMES OF SUCH NOTABLES AS PRESIDENTS GRANT, HARRISON, CLEVELAND: BOXERS CORBETT, FITZSIMMONS, ACTOR GILBERT BARRY AND HIGHWAYMAN BLACK BART. PRESENT STRUCTURE BUILT IN 1862 FOLLOWING INFAMOUS FIRE. GRASS VALLEY - SEPT. 25, 1965 WM. BULL MEEK - WM. MORRIS STEWART CHAPTER 10 E CLAMPUS VITUS, NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA #12 Nevada Hose Co. No. 1 in the 1960s. #13 Name: Brimskill Building Location: Town of Washington, Nevada County, across street from Washington Hotel. Wording: BRIMSKILL BUILDING BUILT BY EDWARD BRIMSKILL, 1849-1851. REAR SECTION BUILT 1849. IRON SHUTTERS, #14 The Holbrooke Hotel in 1965. A PROTECTION FROM FIRE AND ROBBERS, IMPORTED FROM SCOTLAND. USED IN #15 Name: Minerʹs Foundry (Allanʹs Machine EARLY DAYS (AS A) GENERAL STORE AND Shop) Founded 1856 MINER’S SUPPLIES.