Mitchler Hotel

Calaveras County · Murphys · location approximate

This hostelry originally built in 1855 by J. L. Sperry of Sperry flour fame and his partner John Perry. Among early guests whose names appear on old register are Mark Twain, Horatio Alger, General U. S. Grant, and C. E. Bolton (Black Bart). The quaint old hotel, according to tradition, is the one referred to in Bret Harte's Night in Wingdom. Murphy's Camp founded in early '49 by John and Daniel Murphy, brothers. Millions of gold taken from camp and vicinity.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.

Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)

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