April 28, 2011 - Sal Manna, founder of the Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History, will be the guest speaker at the May meeting of the San Joaquin Genealogical Society.
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BURSON, CA – February 24, 2011 – A Calaveras nonprofit group is bringing the past into the social media present with the county’s first online contest focused on local history awareness. The Historic Dozen Contest sponsored by the Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History (SPWCH) wi
BURSON, CA – January 20, 2011 – The only known photograph of Sgt.
December 11, 2010 - Thanks to the generosity of a donor who wishes to remain anonymous, a rare token from the Hub Saloon in Valley Springs has become the 2,500th item in the archives of the Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History. The metal token, "Good For One Drink," is believed
October 1, 2010 - The Valley Springs railroad depot has been evaluated as eligible for the National Register of Historic Places thanks to the efforts of the Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History.
September 24, 2010 - The Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History (SPWCH) today honored all Valley Springs postmasters throughout history with a presentation to the latest postmaster, Timothy C. Brown, at his official swearing-in ceremony.
BURSON, CA -- September 1, 2010 -- A remote cave in the Burson area filled with nearly two dozen grinding holes and numerous Native American petroglyphs and pictographs has been documented for the first time by the Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History.
BURSON, CA -- June 19, 2010 -- Thanks partly to the efforts of the Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History (SPWCH), remnants of the county's first courthouse, erected in Double Springs in 1850, will remain in West Calaveras.
BURSON, CA -- January 7, 2010 -- The history of West Calaveras now has a home on the Internet. The Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History (SPWCH) has launched spwch.thesitemechanics.com as the group’s Website and the premier source on the Internet for historical information specifically about the area, which includes Valley Springs, Burson, Wallace and more. Among the site’s current highlights are the publication of a new, authoritative history of Valley Springs and an e-commerce shopping cart where consumers may purchase books, artwork and memorabilia related to W
BURSON, CA – November 12, 2009 – Did you know that the 1960s “Big Valley” TV series was inspired by a woman rancher in West Calaveras? Or that both the first and the most famous olive orchards in the entire region were in Wallace? How about Capt.