South Lake County, California, History
  • Welcome
    • Historic photos
    • Chauncey W. Gibson
  • Local History
    • First People >
      • The Oldest Lake
      • Clearlake Man
  • Photos
    • Middletown c.1875 ?
    • Donated Photos >
      • Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum collection
      • LakeCo Historical Society South Lake photos
      • Library of Congress
      • Donna Hoberg collection
      • Walter Hardester Collection
      • Chelsea McCormick Collection
      • Mike Read Collection
      • Morse Family Collection
      • Bob Prather Collection
      • C. M. Young Family
    • Schoolhouses >
      • Calistoga St. at Young
  • Contact Us
  • Links of Interest
    • The Resorts >
      • Anderson Springs
      • Hoberg's Resort
      • Howard Hot Springs
    • Lillie Langtry in her own words
    • Middletown Luncheon Club
  • Before Lake County
  • Gibson's Garden
  • Middletown Rancheria
  • Mat Harbin
  • Grand Opening pics
  • Treaty O Map
  • New Page

First Sales of Callayomi Land Grant
Armstrong-Berry Deed
​
John Cobb
Oldest House - Wm J. Armstrong
The First Hotel -- Charles Marsh Young
The First House
The First Church -- Reverend W.E. Read
The First Newspaper -- Mort Stanley
The First Store

Middletown 1890
Middletown Cemetery
The Resorts - multiple links
Lawley Toll Road
Redwood Logging
Herrick Family  - Hamlin Herrick  - 1914 Murder
O.P. Poulson

Lillie Langtry

Gibson Museum is located at the corner of Calistoga and Callayomi, opposite Middletown Square
20th Century Middletown

1918 Middletown Fire
The Gibson Library building 
Middletown Luncheon Club

Middletown Volunteer Fire Dept.
Rabbit Hill
Middletown, by Skee Hamann
A video of Forest Lake
Middletown circa 1930s
Riverview Lodge
Anderson Marsh
Vintage News Clips
Mini History by K.Scavone



Lake County

Early Lake County
12,000 years ago
Lake County's Spanish Land Grants:
       Rancho Callayomi  and  Rancho Guenoc

Claiming the Land Grants      ​ ​           
       
Jacob P. Leese
       Capt. A. A. Ritchie
 
       Capt. Robert Henry Waterman
​       John M. Hamilton & 

       Robert Henry Sterling
Lake County's 
Oldest Building
Unratified Treaties​
(Ol' Greenwood) first white settler?
The Village of Guenoc
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                                            History of Lake County  (16 pages from the 1881 book -- give it time to load)                               

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  • Welcome
    • Historic photos
    • Chauncey W. Gibson
  • Local History
    • First People >
      • The Oldest Lake
      • Clearlake Man
  • Photos
    • Middletown c.1875 ?
    • Donated Photos >
      • Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum collection
      • LakeCo Historical Society South Lake photos
      • Library of Congress
      • Donna Hoberg collection
      • Walter Hardester Collection
      • Chelsea McCormick Collection
      • Mike Read Collection
      • Morse Family Collection
      • Bob Prather Collection
      • C. M. Young Family
    • Schoolhouses >
      • Calistoga St. at Young
  • Contact Us
  • Links of Interest
    • The Resorts >
      • Anderson Springs
      • Hoberg's Resort
      • Howard Hot Springs
    • Lillie Langtry in her own words
    • Middletown Luncheon Club
  • Before Lake County
  • Gibson's Garden
  • Middletown Rancheria
  • Mat Harbin
  • Grand Opening pics
  • Treaty O Map
  • New Page