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California's 1971 landmark register, on the maps of its own eras

In 1971 the California Department of Parks and Recreation printed the state's register of historical landmarks: 844 numbered landmarks, from No. 1, the Custom House at Monterey, to No. 844, the Hotel del Coronado, each with the state's own text. 773 of the 1971 edition's 844 landmarks now have permanent pages at TreeAlive, placing that register text on georeferenced maps from the period each one commemorates. These pages carry the register as the state printed it in 1971, not the wording on the plaque today.

780marker pages live
82,000+historical map sheets
1971 registercredited on every page

Every dot is a live page. Click one to preview it or add it to a road trip. Prefer a list? Browse all 780 markers by county.

Featured markers

Fort Ross
1812–1906
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Bear Flag Monument
1846
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Custom House
1846
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What a California family sees

TreeAlive maps family trees. When a visitor's ancestors lived in California, the landmarks registered near those places surface automatically alongside their family's journey:

Fort Ross · near where a family lived on the Sonoma coast in the 1840s · founded in 1812 by Russians from Alaska, and when they withdrew in 1841 Captain Sutter bought the improvements and supplies

A landmark stops being a roadside stop and becomes a destination with a personal reason to visit. Open the live demo tree, choose the Crossings tab, and turn on Historical Markers to see the experience working (the demo family’s markers are in Pennsylvania; a California family sees California’s).

QR-ready, from day one

Every marker page has print-ready QR artwork. A scan at the sign opens the marker's page on the period map, no app to install. The artwork files are available to the state and its sign vendors; TreeAlive does no printing or installation.

Marker page links are permanent: identifiers are never reassigned, so a code printed today resolves for good.

QR code opening the Fort Ross marker page Scan: Fort Ross landmark

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  • BodieBodie State Historic Park
  • Dog Town7 miles south of Bridgeport, U.S. Highway 395
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