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Cooper's Sawmill was built in 1834 by John B. R. Cooper. It was located on Rancho El Molino. [3] Cooper built the mill approximately two years before he received a grant to Rancho El Molino. [2] It became the first water power-operated sawmill used for commercial purposes in the state of California. Redwood lumber was the primary wood used at ...
Discovery of Gold, by John A. Sutter, Hutchings' California Magazine, November 1857. Sutter describes how he wanted a sawmill near the Sacramento and how Marshall told him of the gold. Early photographs, illustrations, and textual references to Sutter's Mill; Archived 2008-09-07 at the Wayback Machine, via Calisphere, California Digital Library.
The Pacific Lumber Company, officially abbreviated PALCO, and also commonly known as PL, was one of California's major logging and sawmill operations, located 28 miles (45 km) south of Eureka and 244 miles (393 km) north of San Francisco.
Rancho El Molino was a 17,892-acre (72.41 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Sonoma County, California granted by Governor José Figueroa in 1833 to John B.R. Cooper. The grant was officially confirmed by Governor Nicolás Gutiérrez in 1836. [1] "Molino" means "mill" in Spanish, and the name refers to Cooper's sawmill.
California Gold Rush entrepreneur Henry Meiggs owned one of California's first sawmills near Bodega.After that sawmill had converted nearby forests to lumber for the booming city of San Francisco, Meiggs investigated reports of coastal forests to the north and shipped a boiler and steam-powered gang sawmill around Cape Horn to be erected on the navigable Big River estuary.
The Yosemite Lumber Company constructed the steepest logging incline in history. 1913 Huntington Lake completed. [2]: 167 1919 Southern California Edison buys Shaver Lake, annexes it to the Big Creek Hydroelectric Project. [7]: 15 1922 The Madera Sugar Pine Company ends labor contract with Chinese workers, sets fire to Chinatown. [8]
A sawmill in the interior of Australia, c. 1900 Modern reconstruction Sutter's mill in California, where gold was first found in 1848. The Hierapolis sawmill, a water-powered stone sawmill at Hierapolis, Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey, then part of the Roman Empire), dating to the second half of the 3rd century, is the earliest known sawmill.
James Wilson Marshall (October 8, 1810 – August 10, 1885) was an American carpenter and sawmill operator, who on January 24, 1848, reported the finding of gold at Coloma, California, a small settlement on the American River about 36 miles northeast of Sacramento. His discovery was the impetus for the California Gold Rush.