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The Weaverville Joss House ( also called " The Temple of the Forest Beneath the Clouds "), a Taoist temple, was built in 1874 and is California's best preserved example of a Gold Rush-era Chinese place of worship.
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Weaverville and Joss
The temple is now the Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park, and its interior, including an intricately carved wooden altar, can be viewed by visitors.
* Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park-official site
Weaverville and also
The Trinity River, near the town of Weaverville, is very popular for salmon and steelhead angling, as is the Stuart Fork of the Trinity River and such streams as Canyon Creek ( closed to fishing below Canyon Creek Falls ), Coffee, Grizzly, Rush and Swift Creeks, all of which drain the Trinity Alps Wilderness, also near Weaverville.
Weaverville and Taoist
The Gold Rush town of Weaverville on the Trinity River today retains the oldest continuously used Taoist temple in California, a legacy of Chinese miners who came.
Weaverville and temple
Weaverville is the home of California's oldest continuously used Chinese temple.
Weaverville and was
Nestled at the foot of the current Trinity Alps Wilderness Area, Weaverville was once home to approximately 2, 000 Chinese gold miners, and had its own Chinatown.
The racial makeup of Weaverville was 3, 162 ( 87. 8 %) White, 11 ( 0. 3 %) African American, 152 ( 4. 2 %) Native American, 41 ( 1. 1 %) Asian, 1 ( 0. 0 %) Pacific Islander, 38 ( 1. 1 %) from other races, and 195 ( 5. 4 %) from two or more races.
Federally, Weaverville is located in California's 2nd congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 11, which is 2 points lower than it was prior to the 2008 election.
It has been claimed that Weaverville was an inspiration for the remote paradise of Shangri-la from British author James Hilton's " Lost Horizon ", but this is the result of a misinterpretation of a comment by Hilton in a 1941 interview, in which he said that Weaverville reminded him of Shangri-La .. Junction City ( about 8 miles from Weaverville ) has a Tibetan Buddhist center.
* The 1938 Movie Gold Is Where You Find It was filmed in and around Weaverville.
Reagan was the first mayor and with a town council Weaverville began to develop roads and walkways.
Zebulon Vance was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina near present-day Weaverville, the third of eight children.
The gap between Douglas City and Etna was filled in 1959 with an extension of Route 82 south to Route 20 near Weaverville ; at the same time, the portion between Weaverville and Yreka was added to the California Freeway and Expressway System, which identifies the main routes of transportation in the state of California.
Weaverville and built
The courthouse, built in 1856, is the second oldest in the state, and the Weaverville Drug Store has been filling prescriptions since 1852.
Weaverville High School, built by the WPA in 1927, opened on the south end of Main Street, but later merged secondary-school operations with four other area schools ( Flat Creek, Red Oak, French Broad, and Barnardsville ) in 1954 to form North Buncombe High School.
Weaverville and is
The county seat and largest town is Weaverville, with a population of approximately 3, 500 people.
Weaverville is a census-designated place and the county seat of Trinity County, California, USA.
Founded in 1850, Weaverville is a historic California Gold Rush town.
Weaverville is often threatened by forest fires.
Weaverville is located at ( 40. 736687 ,-122. 936208 ).
In the state legislature Weaverville is located in the 4th Senate District, represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa, and in the 1st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Wesley Chesbro.
Weaverville is currently home to an anti-government sheriff, who wants to tell private citizens how they can use their land, while at the same time is involved with a group of anti-government sheriffs whose jurisdiction lies within Northern California's Emerald Triangle.
Weaverville is a town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.
Weaverville is located at ( 35. 695809 ,-82. 558444 ).
Weaverville is located about 5 miles North of the city of Asheville, North Carolina and many residents of Weaverville work in that larger city.
* His birthplace is a state historic site in Weaverville.
Paralleling the Trinity River, SR 299 passes through Salyer ( where there is a rest area ), Burnt Ranch, Del Loma, Big Bar, Helena, Junction City, and finally Weaverville.
In Weaverville, SR 299 runs concurrently with SR 3 southbound to Douglas City, where there is a rest area.
Trinity Dam is an earthfill dam on the Trinity River located about northeast of Weaverville, California in the United States.
Weaverville and California's
Weaverville, the county seat, has the distinction of housing some of California's oldest buildings.
Weaverville and Gold
The discovery of gold in 1851 at Yreka ( and throughout Siskiyou and Trinity counties ) brought California Gold Rush-era prospectors up the rivers of the region in search of gold, leading to the first non-Native American settlements in the area, including at Old Shasta, Portuguese Flat, Upper Soda Springs, Weaverville, and Yreka itself.
Trinity Lake is located north of Redding, California, off of Highway 299 near the Gold Rush mining town of Weaverville.
Weaverville and place
Weaverville may refer to a place in the United States:
Weaverville and .
Trinity Transit provides bus service on State Routes 3 and 299, serving Hayfork, Douglas City and Weaverville.
The county owns five general aviation airports: Trinity Center Airport, Weaverville Airport, Hayfork Airport, Hyampom Airport and Ruth Airport.
Logging and tourism were the economic mainstays of Weaverville for many years.
The National Weather Service has had a cooperative weather station in Weaverville since 1894.
The 2010 United States Census reported that Weaverville had a population of 3, 600.
Joss and House
The Joss House is an historic Taoist temple built in 1873.
The Joss House is now managed by the park system and is open to visitors all year round
* Photos of Joss House events
The Mendocino Joss House, a historical landmark also known as Mo Dai Miu, The Military God-King's Temple, or Temple of Kwan Tai, built in 1852, is a typical example of the small shrines erected to Guan Yu in America.
* The Tin Hau Temple at Tai Miu Wan ( 大廟灣 ; Joss House Bay ) is considered the most sacred.
During the annual Tin Hau Festival, special ferries operate from North Point Ferry Pier to Joss House Bay.
* Gina Ravera-Jocelyn " Joss " House
* 1999 The Grand Joss House ( 大庙 ) on Chinese Fire III ( 中国火III )
The Lam family also founded the historic Tin Hau temple in Joss House Bay.
* North Point to Joss House Bay ( 大廟灣 ) ( special service which only operates on Tin Hau-birthday-festival )
Other music credits include the main theme song in Sony Pictures Seven Pounds, alongside Joss Stone, Lindsay Buckingham and Babyface in the televised Sundance concert Where Music Meets Film as well as featured song placements in House, 2010 season of American Idol, Nip / Tuck, CSI: NY, In Justice, Jake 2. 0 and Everwood.
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