Welcome to California History Resources

Gold Rush

• Virtual California Gold Country

• California Gold Rush - the official account of a visit paid to the gold region in July 1848 by Colonel Richard Barnes Mason, who had been appointed to the military command in California, and wrote his report for the adjutant-general at Washington

• California Gold Rush - A short History

• CalGoldRush.com

• Gold Rush Trail Foundation

Ghost Towns

• Cerro Gordo

General History Links

• Orange County Then ~ great site about the history of the county including: The people who shaped Orange County, Orange County Landmarks, links for many of the cities of Orange County, and more.

• Bodie, California

• Carlsbad History Tour

• Death Valley

• History of the Russian Settlement of Fort Ross, Calif.

• Griffith Park History Project

• History of Placer County

• Genealogy in the San Diego Area

• The 1850 Census of San Diego County

• The History of San Francisco

• Chinese Historical and Cultural Project, San Jose

• Santa Cruz Local History

• Old Time Tahoe

California Small Town Newspapers

• Beverly Hills News (Beverly Hills, California)

• Beverly Hills Weekly (Beverly Hills, California)

• Catalina Islander (Avalon, California)

• Chester Progressive (Chester, California)

• Cloverdale Reveille (Cloverdale, California)

• Delhi Express (Delhi, California)

• Feather River Bulletin (Quincy, California)

• Geyersville Press (Cloverdale, California)

• Gridley Herald (Gridley, California)

• Indian Valley Record (Greenville, California)

• Intermountain News (Burney, California)

• Julian News (Julian, California)

• Lassen county times (Susanville, California)

• Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California)

• Plumas National (Quincy, California)

• Portola Reporter (Portola, California)

• Westwood PinePress (Westwood, California)