Snelling, Hornitos, Quartzburg & Coulterville from 1929-1933

SNELLING, CALIFORNIA #1
This is the original Merced County Courthouse when Snelling was the county seat of Merced County. The seat was moved to Merced in the 1870s.
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SNELLING, CALIFORNIA #2
This appears to be a side view of the building in the previous photo.
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THE ROAD TO HORNITOS
In the negatives this images leads into the following images so perhaps this is the road somewhere on the Snelling-Hornitos-Bear Valley route.
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HORNITOS, CALIFORNIA #1
This photo and the next five are probably all Hornitos since three of them have been identified as such.
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HORNITOS, CALIFORNIA #2
Hornitos was a Mexican village from the mid-1800s and it is written that it was a lively place with a population of 6,000. Today it is a semi ghost town.
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HORNITOS, CALIFORNIA #3

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HORNITOS, CALIFORNIA #4

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HORNITOS, CALIFORNIA #5

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HORNITOS, CALIFORNIA #6

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HORNITOS, CALIFORNIA #7

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THORN HOME, QUARTZBERG, CALIFORNIA
This was the remains in 1931 of Colonel Thomas Thorn's home, Quartzburg's first Post Master in the mid-1800s.
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BEAR VALLEY #1
An original print of this May 1931 photo is labeled, 'Part of the old mining town of Bear Valley, where General Freemont built his house when he retired, and it was while living here that he was a candidate for the Presidency of the United States.'
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BEAR VALLEY #2
Bear Valley today is called a Village. Looks like it wasn't more than that in 1931.
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BEAR VALLEY #3
Another view of the village.
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COULTERVILLE, CALIFORNIA
This photo was in sequence with the next photo in the negatives, so it's reasonable to assume that this too is Coulterville.
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COULTERVILLE, CALIFORNIA
Hotel Jeffery in Coulterville in May, 1931.
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COULTERVILLE, CALIFORNIA
This also is Coulterville. The building in the center background is the Hotel Jeffery from the opposite direction of the previous photo.
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