A statue of Junípero Serra, also known as the Serra Shrine, was installed in the community of Carmel Woods in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States.
Artist Joseph "Jo" Mora (1876-1947), designed and carved the wood statue of Father Serra.
It was a very enjoyable stop. The museum is located on a pier, and is part of a cannery, so workers come and go as you wander through the museum and building.
Rockhounds take note! This is an awesome place. Beautiful geodes, crystals, and gems. Uniquely designed jewelry and a museum to boot. It was hard to leave.
It was wonderful to see all the gold records, Oscar, news articles, and photographs while listening to his wonderful voice in the background.
As of May 2022, the house is open from 1-4 four days a week: Mon., Wed., Fri., & Sat.
We didn’t find the landmark specified in Roadtrippers as we were on I90 West and the navigation wanted us to do a U-turn onto I90 East. But the next turnoff (not an exit) had an historical marker/truck rest area sign and we found a marker there explaining the location of the completion site and the ceremony featuring President US Grant. I uploaded a picture of the marker we saw.
There is a park here which is a must stop if you are driving down 90. It covers two important events for this area; mining and fires.
There are a number of mining exhibits of mining tools and there use. For example, do you know what order to set off charges when mining thru rock?
The second is this area is where a large fire in 1910 happened. This fire forced the forest service to change how they fight fires. PBS American Experience covered this fire in 2015 in an episode called the Big Burn.
Oh yeah, there are restrooms too!
This statue is at the Historic Wallace exit off I90 in Wallace, ID. There is a small park dedicated to both mining and the devastating Bitteroot Mountain fire of 1910.
This is now a Howard Johnson’s Inn
Geyser Inn is at 101 Electric street. No breakfast but clean, friendly, and cheap. Good place to hole up on a snowy night
It is simply a plaque indicating where Orville Wright tested water landings on the river. But that was new information for us and worth the stop.