Downieville
GPS *** N39' 33.623 W120' 49.670 *** Elev. 2898'

 

MACKERMAN & COMPANY BUILDING

 

CONSTRUCTED  CIRCA  1852.  JOSEPH  MACKERMAN

USED  THE  BUILDING  AS  HOME  AND  BREWERY.

SINCE  THAT  TIME  THE  BUILDING  HOUSED  A  DRUG

STORE,  MEAT  MARKET  AND  CALIFORNIA'S  OLD-

EST  WEEKLY  NEWSPAPER  - - -  THE  MOUNTAIN

MESSENGER.  THIS  FIREPROOF  BUILDING,  WITH

ITS  IRON  DOOR,  THREE  FOOT  THICK  WALLS

AND  FOUR  FOOT  THICK  MUD  AND  BRICK

CEILING  IS  A  FINE  EXAMPLE  OF  GOLD  RUSH

ARCHITECTURE.

 

DEDICATED  AUGUST  28,  1982

DOWNIE  CHAPTER  NO. 1849

E  CLAMPUS  VITUS

 

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