Knights Ferry Historic District
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NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, historic landmark, town district
(Polygon is approximate)
Knight's Ferry was founded by Captain William Knight, a member of Fremont's expedition of 1844. This town was a center of great mining activity and a distributing point for the Mother Lode Country.
In 1854 the first sawmill and flour mill for the territory was erected here by Locke and Dent.
General U. S. Grant visited his brother-in-law, George Dent, here in 1854.
Knight's Ferry was the county seat of Stanislaus County from 1862 until 1872.
National Historic Register number: 1975000490
California Historic Landmark: 347
Knight's Ferry was founded by Captain William Knight, a member of Fremont's expedition of 1844. This town was a center of great mining activity and a distributing point for the Mother Lode Country.
In 1854 the first sawmill and flour mill for the territory was erected here by Locke and Dent.
General U. S. Grant visited his brother-in-law, George Dent, here in 1854.
Knight's Ferry was the county seat of Stanislaus County from 1862 until 1872.
National Historic Register number: 1975000490
California Historic Landmark: 347
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Ferry
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 37°49'9"N 120°40'17"W
- Columbia, California 32 km
- Columbia State Historic Park 35 km
- Campo Seco 49 km
- Kennedy Mine 62 km
- Fiddletown, California 77 km
- Institute of Forest Genetics (Eddy Tree Breeding Station) 103 km
- Coloma, California 114 km
- Kearney Park 138 km
- Bodie State Historic Park 152 km
- Manzanar National Historic Site 253 km
- Knights Ferry General Store
- The River's Edge Restaurant 0.2 km
- Bridge 0.3 km
- Knights Ferry, California 0.5 km
- Knights Ferry Recreational Area 0.6 km
- Oak Grove Cemetery 1.1 km
- Twin Cypress Mobile Home Park 2.2 km
- Old Trap Range 2.6 km
- East Oakdale, California 10 km
- Sierra Railroad 12 km