Calaveras County Points of Interest
 "Thompson Building and Traver Building in Murphys")
Thompson Building and Traver Building
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Antonio M. de la Guerra
1825-1881
Benicia, March 17, 1853
Senator de la Guerra introduced a resoultion granting to the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus the use of the Senate Chamber when not otherwise occupied. (A humorless old polecat spoiled it.)
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6 December 2012
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470 Main Street
Murphys
The marker, mounted on the wall to the right of the entrance, reads:
Thompson Building
Built soon after 1856 by John Thompson operator of Lime Kiln on Posky Hill and stone mason, who built adjoining Traver Building, and many other stone buildings.
Occupied, circa 58, by Meyer & Friedlander, General Merchandise. Later Fred Sackett ran a saloon here. Bill Herbert earnestly tried his best to shoot Sackett here in a gambling argument.
The ECV Wall of Comparative Ovations is on the side wall of the Thompson Building.