Benicia
Capitol State Historic Park
The historic park is located at 115 West G Street in
Benicia, not far from Vallejo, in Solono County.
Benicia Capitol State Historic Park is the site of California’s
third seat of government (1853-54.) It is the only pre-Sacramento
capitol that survives.
The original building has been restored with reconstructed
period furnishings and exhibits. The interior includes
a board-for-board reconstruction of the building’s
original floor with ponderosa pine. Three of the desks
are originals from the Benicia period or earlier. A
candlestick, a 19th century newspaper, a quill pen and
a top hat sits on tops of the desks. Imagine how life
was for those who lived during that era.
Marconi Conference Center State Historic Park
Marconi Conference Center is located on Highway 1, two
miles south of Marshall, California. The Marconi Conference
Center is situated on 62 acres of wooded hills overlooking
scenic Tomales Bay in Marin County. The California State
Parks Foundation acquired the property in 1984 with
Buck Trust funds, remodeled it as a conference center,
and gave it to the California Department of Parks and
Recreation which now operates it as a non-profit facility.
The conference center operation enables these grounds
to be preserved and protected, while the historical
buildings constructed by Marconi await restoration.
Monterey State Historic Park
The park is at 20 Custom House Plaza, in Monterey County.
Monterey State Historic Park served as California's
capital under Spanish, Mexican and U.S. rule. The U.S.
flag was first officially raised in California here
on July 7, 1846, bringing 600,000 square miles, including
California, into the Union. Ten buildings, including
the Custom House, built in 1827, and California's First
Theatre, and several residences, now museums, built
in the 1830s, preserve the area's rich history of early
California.
Olompali State Historic Park
Olompali State Historic Park is located three miles
north of Novato on U.S. 101 in Marin County. The entrance
is accessible only to southbound traffic from Highway
101. The park overlooks the Petaluma River and San Pablo
Bay from the east-facing slopes of 1,558 foot Mount
Burdell. The name "olompali" comes from the
Miwok language and may be translated as "southern
village" or "southern people." The Coast
Miwok inhabited at least one site within the area of
the present-day park continuously from as early as 6,000
BC, until the early 1850s.
Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park
Perched on a cliff on the central California coast,
50 miles south of San Francisco, in San Mateo County,
the 115-foot Pigeon Point Lighthouse is one of the tallest
lighthouses in America. It has been guiding mariners
since 1872. Its five-wick lard oil lamp, and first-order
Fresnel lens, comprised of 1,008 prisms, was first lit
at sunset, November 15, 1872. The lens stands 16 feet
tall, 6 feet in diameter, and weighs 8,000 pounds. It
sits in a lantern room that had been constructed at
the Lighthouse Service's general depot in New York before
being shipped around the Horn. Although the original
Fresnel lens is no longer in use, the lighthouse is
still an active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation using
a 24 inch Aero Beacon.
Point Sur State Historic Park
The park is located 19 miles south of Carmel along Highway
One in Monterey County. Point Sur is the only complete
turn-of-the century Lightstation open to the public
in California, and is on the National Register of Historic
Places.The Point Sur Lightstation sits 361 feet above
the surf on a large volcanic rock. It was first lit
on August 1, 1889 and hass remained in continuous operation.
Lighthouse keepers and their families lived at the site
from 1889 to 1974 when the lighthouse was automated.
Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park
The Santa Cruz Mission is located in downtown Santa
Cruz in Santa Cruz County. To get there take Mission
Street to Mission Plaza. Santa Cruz Mission State Historic
Park is the site of a complex of buildings erected around
the original Santa Cruz Mission. Part of the cluster,
the Neary-Rodriguez Adobe was built in 1791 and is the
last of the mission’s many buildings to survive.
The single-story adobe has been restored to its original
appearance.
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