Tuolumne County Points of Interest
A marker is mounted on the front of the building:
Ramirez-Preston Building
Early 1850's
Ignacia Ramirez, female pioneer and native of Mexico, earliest known owner of this Gold Rush building. Upstairs meeting hall of St. James Masonic Lodge #54, acquired 1877 by R. A. Preston. Jamestown Post Office in 1930's; later medical office of Dr. James A. Hadley. Acquired by Donn Blount in 1994.
Tuolumne County Historical Society
Marker No. 8
December, 2002
Some Masonic Halls in California
Alameda
Benicia
Berkeley
Camptonville
Colfax
Columbia
Daly City
Downieville
Ferndale
Fort Bragg
Grass Valley
Greenville
Hornitos
Jamestown
Knights Ferry
Mendocino
Milton
Murphys
Nevada City
North Bloomfield
Orland
Sacramanto
Sacramanto (Eastern Star Hall)
Saint Helena
San Francisco (1849)
San Francisco (1911)
Shasta State Historic Park
Sonoma
Suison City
Susanville
Tehama
Vallejo
Westwood
Wheatland
Willows
Woodbridge
Other Masonic Halls in The American West
Ashland, Oregon
Austin, Nevada
Genoa, Nevada
Gardnerville, Nevada