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Forty-Niners

The Forty-Niners

Near this point ten Lafayette Freemasons, operating as traveling Sierra Nevada Lodge, embarked March 27, 1849 on six months' journey by boat to Mexico, then overland to Pacific, then by ship to California gold fields.

Erected 1975 by the Grand Lodge F. & A. M. of Indiana

 

Submitted by: Melissa McCurley

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