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30-36 Main Street - (Historical Building) Our history says 30 Main is where the 1862 fire started. Ere that Francis and Paul Reichling moved in to buy and assay gold. Earlier, the site housed rivals of Wells Fargo Express; Hunter & Co, Adams & Co., Pacific Express. One story bricks arose here and next northerly. Both stores acquired second floors early in the 20th century. |
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38 Main Street - (Historical Building) About 20 years ago the owners restored the facade to make it more like the 1854 building it is! it, with the Masonic Hall, and the Fixary buildings, are the only known stores built in the year the county was formed and Jackson became its first and only county seat. The brickwork for the store and its northerly neighbor (later destroyed) "was laid in 21 days in November" that year. The Amador Dispatch had a 20th century office here. 38 Main, One of three downtown buildings dating from 1854, Levy Bros. |
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What was Jackson like in 1850 when Caldwell and the Huron boys from Ohio arrived? Historian Jesse Mason, in an 1881 history, said there were about seven buildings in what is in or near downtown Jackson, some empty. Louis Tellier was set up by the tree, White and Evans at the spring and crossing of the creek, Reeve somewhere, Kent near where the civic center is on Broadway, Palmer settling where the Galli building is, his stables where the mall building (by the bank) is today, and the "Brandy and Sugar hotel" near the firehouse. Of course, scattered on the hill and in still pine-studded suburb were the miners tents, brush shanties and log cabins. | ||
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40 Main Street - (Historical Building) 40 Main, 1863-1865, The 1862 fire destroyed a one story brick building here, but owner rebuilt present one between fire and 1865. |
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42 Main Street - (Historical Building) 42 Main, Gurilich Building, 1863, destroyed by fire in 1862.. |
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What were the Huron boys doing in Jackson? While there is more than a suspicion that then or later some invested in real estate in Main street's burgeoning business district, Caldwell and others had a claim or "two piles of dirt" nearby from which they hoped to capture enough gold to pay their debts. But that winter there was little rain, and even by January Caldwell's ravine had not a rivulet of runoff to work their dirt. Nor had their mining ground a a ditch system.
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Information, photographs courtesy of the Amador County Archives, The Historical Marker Database, The Chronicling America Database, and Larry Cenotto, Amador County's Historian CONTACT US
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