Discover Historic California: A Travel Guide to Over 1,500 Places You Can See

This travel Guide to State Historic Landmarks and other historic sites takes you to over 1800 places throughout California. With this book as your guide, you'll discover places most travelers miss. You'll know what's beyond the turn in the road...what side road to take...what there is to see...and a little history about the events that shaped our state. Explore ghost towns, historic museums and buildings, lighthouses, Pony Express stops, historic towns, gold mines, Victorian homes, adobes, missions, stage stops, presidios and much more. It's all in this guide...the men and women who took the risks and made the sacrifices, the great landmarks in the state's history, the birthplace of new ideas...the living history of California.