Site of the Last Home of Alexis Godey

Site of the Last Home of Alexis Godey is a California Historical Landmark in Bakersfield, Kern County.

19th Street, West of Union Ave., Bakersfield · location approximate

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Near this site stood the last home of Alexis Godey, frontiersman and scout. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1818, he acted as guide for John C. Frémont's expedition through the Kern area in 1843-44, and was honored for his services at the Battle of San Pasqual in 1846. Moving here in 1883, Godey died January 19, 1889.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document.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 ↗

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Historical maps covering this location

1810 · Mexico and Adjacent Provinces. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1855 · Map of the Public Surveys in California, 1855 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1859 · Map of the Public Surveys in California, 1859 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1861 · Passes, Sierra Nevada, Walker's Pass-Coast Range. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1886 · Sheet No. 4, Southern Portion, Irrigation Map of the San Joaquin Valley, California. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Mexico and Adjacent Provinces, 1810, covering the location of Site of the Last Home of Alexis Godey, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Mexico and Adjacent Provinces, 1810, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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

Site of the Last Home of Alexis Godey

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