Tuolumne County Points of Interest
6 December 2012
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Main Street at Lemon Drop Lane
Jamestown
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