In addition to the Welcome Center & History Museum, the Osceola County Historical Society also operates an outdoor museum called Pioneer Village. Over the next few blog posts that are not part of the Life of Paul series I will be introducing you to some of the people who's lives are honored and referenced in [...]
Category: People
June California Trail Social Media Posts: Week 4
June 22 – A 5-month virtual road trip along the California Trail 3-year-old Ada Magill died from dysentery on July 3, 1864. You can read her story on the Wyoming History webpage of the Wyoming State Historical Society at https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/ada-magill-grave. The photograph of her gravesite (GPS coordinates -105.978,42.849) was downloaded from the Historical Marker Database [...]
June California Trail Social Media Posts: Week 2
June 8 – A 5-month virtual road trip along the California Trail Travelers on the south side of the South Platte river who did not cross earlier would cross near the present-day towns of Julesberg and Ovid, Colorado. You can visit a small museum in Julesberg that tells the story of Fort Sedgwick and the [...]
June California Trail Social Media Posts: Week 1
June 1 – A 5-month virtual road trip along the California Trail Fort Kearney (http://outdoornebraska.gov/fortkearny/ GPS coordinates -99.005, 40.645) was established along the Oregon/California Trail in 1848. Today you can visit an Interpretive Center, view the parade grounds and several reconstructed buildings. Note that this Fort Kearney should be distinguished from "Old Fort Kearney" which [...]
Social Media Posts for March, 2022
The social media posts I wrote for the California Trail Interpretive Center for March were in honor of Women's History month. I chose simply to relate the experiences for four women as they passed through the Elko, Nevada region during their emigration to California in the mid-1800's. I traced their progress from near present-day Wells, [...]
The Watchmaker's Pulse 