Welcome Trail Travelers!
We are glad you
decided to join us on the 2016 Heritage Trail Museums Tour. This is the 9th
year for the event and 24 museums from Roseville to Tahoe are opening their
doors free of charge on certain days throughout the summer. All 24 museums are
committed to showcasing history in a fun and entertaining way. For many Trail
Travelers, this event has become a family tradition. This year we are forging
ahead with a big change. This year
instead of all museums open for one weekend in August, geographic clusters of
museums will have their Heritage Trail Day on certain Saturdays throughout the
summer. This way you have the whole
summer to visit participating museums.
If you can’t make it on their Heritage Trail
day, you can visit them during their regular hours of operation and still get
your Get-Up-And-Go cards stamped! All museums have free admission on their
Heritage Trail day (see calendar below). If you visit them on any other day,
you will have to pay admission if applicable.
Whether you are
from Auburn, Reno, San Francisco, or Boston, you will enjoy this opportunity to
take a trip back in time and get a better understanding of Placer County’s rich
and colorful history. Each museum on the tour is unique. Aside from immersing
yourselves in history, you will enjoy the variety of settings at each museum.
Please read the
calendar below. Thanks
again for joining us. We hope you have a great time!
TRAIL TIPS
THE FOLLOWING
TRAIL TIPS WILL HELP YOU PLAN YOUR ADVENTURE.
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For questions about The Heritage Trail, please call 530-889-6500.
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Eating, drinking and smoking are not permitted in the museums.
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Leave pets at home.
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You’ll want to bring your camera. Inquire at each museum for flash
photography guidelines.
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Be sure to pick up your FREE Get Up & Go card at the first
museum you visit.
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If you can’t make it to a museum on their
Heritage Trail Day, please visit them during regular hours of operation.
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This year it will take 16 stamps on your
Get-Up-And-Go card to qualify for a gift basket drawing.
Heritage Trail 2016 Calendar
June 11th 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Roseville Historical Society
Carnegie Museum
557 Lincoln St., Roseville
916-773-3003 www.rosevillehistorical.org
The Roseville Historical Society's Carnegie
Museum is filled with artifacts of Roseville's past! We highlight our train
display, a massive "N" gauge model railroad depicting Roseville's Old
Town and peeks into our turn-of-the-century past. This year we are
also featuring our pioneer Fiddyment family, their story, beginning with
matriarch Elizabeth Jane, and how the family depicted the days when our area
was all about the land and its resources.
Normal Hours of Operation: Monday
through Friday 12:00- 4:00 (Closed for renovation sometime after July 1st through Summer) Although their event day has passed, you can still visit them during regular hours of operation until they close for renovation and get your card stamped.
Roseville Fire Museum
400 Lincoln St., Roseville
916-538-1809 www.rosevillefiremuseum.org
Artifacts, photographs, videos –
Beginning at 10:00 am they will provide a tour every hour on the hour. Last
tour at 3:00 pm
Normal hours of operation: The museum is not yet open and is still
being constructed. Their event day has passed but if you call the number above, you might be able to schedule your own peek at their progress and get your card stamped.
June 18th 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Bernhard Museum
291 Auburn Folsom Rd., Auburn
530-889-6500 www.placer.ca.gov/museums
Living History activities, seed spitting contest, wagons restored by the Native
Sons of the Golden West Parlor #59, museum tours, hand-cranked ice cream, and Bonitata Boutique Wines
will have a selection available for tasting after 12:00 pm.
Normal Hours of Operation: Tuesday–Sunday 11:00-4:00
Benton Welty School Room
1225 Lincoln Way, Auburn
530-906-0712 www.placercountyhistoricalsociety.org
Auburn Grammar School, built in
1915 (now Auburn City Hall), listed on the National Register of Historic
Places. Get a rare sense of old school days in a classroom packed with photos,
scrapbooks, maps and old school books. Try your hand at string games and
penmanship. Enter the free “just for kids” basket drawing. Ample parking behind
building.
Normal Hours of Operation: Open by appointment only.
Gold Rush Museum
601 Lincoln Way, Auburn
530-889-6500 www.placer.ca.gov/museums
Pan for gold with the Motherlode
Gold Hounds, tour museum which includes a replica mining tunnel, gold rush era
artifacts and play an interactive Gold Rush game. Storytellers will be onhand to tell stories for all ages!
Normal Hours of Operation: Saturdays and Sundays 10:30 – 4:00
July 9th 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Maidu Museum and Historic Site
1970 Johnson Ranch Dr., Roseville
916-774-5934 www.roseville.ca.us/indianmuseum
Explore site where Valley Nisenan
Maidu Indians lived for thousands of years; discover native plants and over 400
bedrock-grinding holes; experience unique and rare sandstone petroglyphs;
hand-on children’s activities, guided tours at 10:00 and 1:00, and an
indigenous art gallery. Gift Shop offers a wide selection of books about Native
Californians, handmade jewelry, minerals, arrowheads and snacks & drinks.
Normal Hours of Operation:
Monday-Friday 9:00-4:00, and Saturday 9:00-1:00
Roseville Telephone Museum
106 Vernon St., Roseville
916-786-1621 www.consolidated.com/museum
The Roseville Telephone Museum has one of the
most extensive collections of antique telephones and memorabilia in the nation.
The exhibits in the 4,500 square-foot museum chronicle and celebrate more than
a century of communications technology in Roseville as well as nationally and
internationally. A visit to the Roseville Telephone Museum makes a fun and
educational family outing, a great school field trip or a group sight-seeing
tour destination. Our museum docents are current and retired employees who are
passionate about telephone history and volunteer their time to share it with
visitors of all ages. Presented by Consolidated Communications, this museum
offers not only rare telephones, but also a demonstration of an early
switchboard.
Normal
Hours of Operation: By appointment only.
Roseville Public Library
225 Taylor St., Roseville
916-774-5221 www.roseville.ca.us/library
This library has a Local History
Collection stocked with historic records, newspapers on microfilm, photographs
and history books. Historic exhibits on
display in the library thru the summer. Guided tours (offered by the Roseville
Historical Society) of the Vernon Street Corridor at 11:00, 1:00 and 3:00 on
July 9th only.
Normal Hours of Operation: Mon-Wed 10:00 am to 7:00 pm and
Thurs-Sat 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
July 16th 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Placer County Museum (Historic
Courthouse)
101 Maple St., Auburn
530-889-6500 www.placer.ca.gov/museums
Overview of Placer County
history, Pate Collection of American Indian Artifacts, gold collection,
restored Sheriff’s Office, Women’s Jail with Alma Bell, Placer County authors
table and the Placer County Genealogical Society will offer guidance on family
history research.
Normal Hours of Operation: Daily 10:00-4:00
Gold Country Medical History
Museum
219-100 Maple St., Auburn
530-906-9822 www.goldcountrymedicalmuseum.com
Restored Victorian building is on
the site of the original Placer County hospital. See medical, dental and
nursing implements, equipment, furnishings, pharmaceuticals, ephemera, and a
collection of “quackery”. They offer demonstrations of quackery, tours and
interpretation of artifacts.
Normal Hours of Operation: Sat & Sun 10:00-3:00, spring thru
fall.
Auburn Joss House Chinese Museum
200 Sacramento St., Auburn
530-346-7121
View original Joss House Altar
(c. 1880) and artifacts from the early Auburn Chinese community. The Joss House
was a Chinese school, Ling Ying Association meeting place and a hostel for
transient Chinese primarily from the mid-1920s to the late 1960s.
Open 1st Saturday of the month, 10:00-3:00
July 23rd 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Gatekeepers Museum
130 West Lake Blvd., Tahoe City
530-583-1762 www.northtahoemuseums.org
View the Marion Steinbach Indian
Basket Collection and exhibits on Tahoe history; join a 10:00 am walking tour
of Tahoe City and experience an old west gunfight on the grounds.
Normal Hours of Operation: Daily 10:00-5:00
Watson Cabin
560 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City
530-583-1762 www.northtahoemuseums.org
Built in 1909 by Robert Watson as
a wedding present for his son, the Watson Cabin is the oldest building
constructed onsite in Tahoe City and is listed on the National Register of
Historic Places. View pioneer artifacts
from early Tahoe with docent-led tours.
Normal Hours of Operation: Open by appointment only.
The Museum of Sierra Ski History
and the 1960 Winter Olympics
760 North Lake Blvd., Tahoe City
Learn the history of skiing in
the Sierra and the history of the 1960 Winter Olympic Games through artifacts,
photographs and ephemera. Dozens of never before seen artifacts from the
Batiste Family Collection are also on display as well as artifacts from the 10th
Mountain Division (World War II).
Normal hours of operation: Open Daily 11:00 – 6:00
August 6th
Griffith Quarry Museum 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Corner of Taylor and Rock Springs Roads, Penryn
530-889-6500 www.placer.ca.gov/museums
View exhibits on granite quarrying,
the Penryn Granite Works business, the history of Penryn and the Griffith
Family. Hands-on exhibits and tours of
the Quarry Park (8:00 and 8:30).
Normal
Hours of Operation: Saturday and Sunday 12:00-4:00
Rocklin History Museum 10:00
am – 4:00 pm
3895 Rocklin Rd., Rocklin
916-624-3464 www.rocklinhistory.org
View exhibits on Rocklin
pioneers, buildings and granite quarrying plus extensive photographs and
interpretation of J.P. Whitney and his land holdings. Roy Ruhkala will
demonstrate granite splitting at 11:00 am.
Normal
Hours of Operation: Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday 1:00-4:00
August 13th 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Colfax Area Heritage Museum
99 Railroad St., Colfax
530-346-8599 www.colfaxhistory.org
View exhibits on the history of
the railroad, gold mining, fruit ranching, pioneer life as well as the Maidu
Indians and the Chinese. Live music by
the Begin Family as well as a gold mining display and demonstration.
Normal Hours of Operation: 10:00-3:00 Daily
Golden Drift Museum
32820 Main St., Dutch Flat
530-389-2126 www.placer.ca.gov/museums
Visit the best preserved Gold
Rush town in Placer County. View
exhibits on nearby towns, gold mining, the railroad, the Towle Lumber Company,
the Maidu Indians, and the Chinese. A tour of Historic Dutch Flat begins at the museum at 11:00 am. Finger food snacks available.
Normal Hours of Operation: Memorial Day- September: Friday –
Sunday 12:00-4:00
Donner Summit Historical Society
Museum
21501 Donner Pass Rd., Norden
530-308-9668 www.donnersummithistoricalsociety.org
Donner Summit is the richest historical area in California: first
wagon trains, first transcontinental railroad, highway telephone line and air
route. On Saturday and Sunday they will
offer tours to Roller Pass. Take Old 40 to Donner
Summit. Across from Donner Ski Ranch is Sugar Bowl Rd. Take the
first left, Old Donner Summit Rd. Drive up to the parking area. If
that area is full keep going, take the sharp left and park along the road or
further up. The trailhead is at the sharp bend in the road where the
porta potty is.
Bring Hat, good shoes, sunscreen, water, camera,
curiosity.
The walk will cover a lot of stories from Chinese railroad
workers, the Emigrant Trail, Theodore Judah, the Lincoln Highway, the source of
the mighty Yuba River, Charlie Chaplin’s film “Gold Rush”, and many, many more. Meet at 9:30 am either day.
Normal Hours of Operation: Saturday and Sunday 10:00-4:00
August 14th 9:30 am
Roller Pass Hike (Donner
Summit Historical Society)
See entry above for details.
August 20th
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Lincoln Area Archives Museum
640 Fifth St., Lincoln
916-645-3800 www.laamca.org
View Nisenan artifacts, Gladding
McBean & Co. photographs, a gold scale from the Van Trent Mine, military
uniforms and artifacts and Chinese baskets.
Also on display are a restored buggy and a grain scale from the local
Walter Jansen & Son. Enjoy an
on-going wood burning stove cooking demonstration and enter a prize drawing for
books written by local historian Jerry Logan. Beverages and cookies available.
Normal
Hours of Operation: Tuesday through Friday 11:00-3:00 and the 1st Saturday of
each month 11:00-3:00.
Fruitvale School
3425 Fruitvale Rd., Lincoln
916-769-7959 www.oldfruitvaleschool.org
Witness the education that farm
children received 100 years ago in a one room school house in rural Lincoln.
Experience hands-on Living History activities and be sure to bring your picnic
basket and enjoy lunch on the grounds!
Normal Hours of Operation: Open by appointment only.
August 27th 8:00 am – Noon
Sierra College Natural History
Museum
5000 Rocklin Rd., Rocklin
Enjoy exhibits on contemporary
nature in our region as well as fossils of life that lived millions of years
ago.
Normal Hours of Operation: Open when school is in session;
Mon-Thurs. 7:00 am – 9:00 pm, Fridays 7:00 am – 5:00 pm, and Saturdays 8:00 am
– noon.
September 2nd
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
DeWitt History Museum
2985 Richardson Dr., Auburn
530-889-6500 www.placer.ca.gov/museums
View exhibits on the history of
the DeWitt Government Center from its inception as a World War II Army
Hospital, its use as a State Mental Hospital and finally its use as a Placer
County Government Center. Displays will also cover the early history of the
area from Nisenan Maidu Indians to early mining and ranching. This will be the
public first peek at a museum that will open later in the year.
Normal Hours of Operation: This museum is not yet open.
September 3rd
& 4th 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Forest Hill Divide Museum
24601 Harrison St., Foresthill
530-367-3988 www.placer.ca.gov/museums
Watch blacksmiths craft period
tools, view exhibits on mining, Native American Heritage, the lumber industry,
fires & firefighting and life in the Victorian era. Hands-on activities for kids, re-enactments,
craft and food booths, gold panning demonstrations, and visitors can watch the
State and National Gold Panning championships. They are combining the Heritage
Trail with their annual Heritage Festival.
Memorial Day - Labor Day Saturday and Sunday 12:00-4:00
Get-Up-And-Go Cards
You can pick-up your Get-Up-And-Go cards at the first
Heritage Trail Day (June 11th) from either the Roseville Historical
Society Carnegie Museum or the Roseville Fire Museum. After that day, you can pick up Get-Up-And-Go
cards from any participating museum. You
can pick up cards and get them stamped on any day the museum is open throughout
the summer. This year, it will take 16
stamps on your card to enter the drawing for a gift basket, but once you turn
in a fully stamped card you’re already a winner. You will immediately get access to a website
with 50 historic Placer County images you can download and a Heritage Trail
silicon wristband. Please remember that you can only play one Get-Up-And-Go
card at a time. You are free to start
another card once you have turned in a fully stamped card.
A big thank you to our sponsors:
Consolidated Communications
Native Sons of the Golden West, Parlor #59
Native Sons of the Golden West, Silver Star Parlor #63
Placer County Board of Supervisors
Museum
Calendar of Summer Events Outside of Heritage Trail
January – November Night Out at the Museum - Maidu Museum and Historic Site - Every third Saturday enjoy
an evening of cultural events at the Maidu Museum & Historic Site. Museum doors open at 6:30pm. Programs
start at 7pm. Light refreshments will be available. FREE event. (6:30
pm – 8:30 pm)
April – October Campfires - Maidu Museum and Historic Site – Every
third Friday sit under the stars at our outdoor amphitheater to enjoy native
stories around the campfire. Program starts at 7:30pm. $5 per person, $16 family of four,
under 2 are FREE. For
more information call 916-774-5934. (7:00 pm – 8:30 pm)
June
– August Archery Camps and Classes - Maidu Museum and Historic Site - Pre-registration
is required. Register by phone (916) 772-PLAY. For
more information call 916-774-5934.
June 5 Watson
Cabin Clean-Up Day – Join us for a spring
cleaning day to prepare Watson Cabin for the summer.
(10:00
am – 4:00 pm)
June 10 – Sept 5 Exhibit: Lake of the Sky Images: The Photographs of
Harold A. Parker – At the Gatekeeper’s
Museum.
June 14 Volunteer
Kick-off Brunch – Join us for the
Volunteer welcome and orientation day at the Gatekeeper’s Museum. Meet and
greet other volunteers and learn about our volunteer opportunities. Please RSVP
by June 10. (11:00
am – 1:00 pm)
June
18 Exhibit
Opening Reception: Telling
Stories: Through the Eyes of the Indigenous Printmaker - Maidu Museum and Historic Site – Exhibit Show runs from June 18 – September 7. For more information call 916-774-5934. (6:30 pm – 8:30
pm)
June 26 Digitization
Day - This one-day event invites community members
and visitors to bring in their historical Lake Tahoe photographs and images for
free professional-quality scanning, with the option to donate a digital copy
for inclusion in the NLTHS's database. Contribute to the shared visual history
of Lake Tahoe. At the Gatekeeper's Museum (10:00 am – 4:00 pm)
June 27-July 1 Nuts About Nature Camp - Maidu Museum and Historic Site - Pre-registration is required. Register on-line www.rosevilleparks.com or by phone (916) 772-PLAY.
For more information call 916-774-5934 (9:00 am – Noon).
June
28 Lecture:
Unique 19th Century Tahoe Glass - A
look at some unique glass objects used by both residents and industry in the
Tahoe Basin in the latter half of the 19th century. Free and open to the public
at Gatekeeper’s Museum (4:00 pm)
June
30 Watson
Cabin opens for the summer
July
6 Mark
McLaughlin Lecture and Book Signing - An
illustrated presentation about McLaughlin's newest book, “SNOWBOUND! Legendary Winters
of the Tahoe Sierra”. SNOWBOUND! profiles the Top 10 biggest winters since
1879. Free and open to the public at the Gatekeeper’s Museum (5:00
pm)
July
10 Gathering
at the Gatekeeper’s - Celebrating
the Gatekeeper’s Museum 35th Anniversary.
(4:00 pm – 8:00 pm) $ Call 530-583-1762 for more information.
July
12 History
Hike Summit Canyon - We’ll
hike down the old Dutch Flat/Donner Lake wagon road and discuss the early
transportation history of the Donner Summit area. Meet Gatekeeper’s Museum
parking lot at 9am. 9:15am sharp departure. Recommended: lunch, water, camera,
sunscreen, good hiking shoes. $ Call
530-583-1762 for more information.
July 16 Exhibit
Opening Reception: We
Were Then, We Are Now
- Maidu Museum and Historic
Site – Exhibit show runs from July
16 – September 30. For
more information call 916-774-5934. (6:30 pm – 8:30 pm)
July
21 Lecture
and Book Signing with Gary Noy - Sierra
Nevada Native and author of Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, and
Bigots, Gary Noy will discuss his upcoming book: Gold Rush Stories about the
wining and dining during the California Gold Rush. Gatekeeper’s Museum. Free
and open to the public (4:00 pm)
July
25-29 Ancient
Art Rocks! Camp - Maidu
Museum and Historic Site - Pre-registration
is required. Register on-line www.rosevilleparks.com or by phone (916) 772-PLAY. For
more information call 916-774-5934.
(9:00 am – Noon)
August
2 – Sept. 8 Volunteer Guide Training - Maidu Museum and Historic Site - For more
information call
916-774-5934. (9:30 am – 12:30 pm)
August
5 Historic
Bus Tour with Mark McLaughlin - The
2016 Historic Bus Tour includes a visit to Truckee’s historic town jail; the
Donner Memorial State Park tour includes an interpretive walk and visit to the
new Visitors Center; Last, travel historic Donner Pass Road along Donner Lake,
up to Rainbow Bridge and the transcontinental railroad tunnels. Tour includes
easy walking. Recommended: comfortable walking shoes, hat, sunscreen, water and
camera. Picnic lunch is included. $
Call 530-583-1762 for more information.
August 11 43rd
Annual Home Tour - Join
us for our annual tour of unique and historic Tahoe homes. This year features
houses in Squaw Valley. $ Call
530-583-1762 for more information.
August 15 History
Hike Fallen Leaf Lake - Hike
includes the north and east shores of the Lake, discussion of some of the
unique personalities who spent time living there, and a visit to the Anita
Baldwin estate ruins. Meet Gatekeeper’s Museum parking lot at 9am. 9:15am sharp
departure. Recommended: bag lunch, water, camera, sunscreen, good hiking shoes.
$ Call
530-583-1762 for more information.
September 11 Watson
Cabin closes for the season
One of the great historic images of Placer County you can download if you turn in a Get-Up-and-Go card with 16 stamps!
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