Who am I, you might ask? I’m “Old Town” Mariposa! I’m the spirit of the West! I am a National Historic Place but, more than that, I might be your way of understanding the future!!! Someone once said that “we cannot understand where we are going unless we understand where we have been”! I’m an old mining camp, in California’s Southern Mother Lode region that was founded in the summer of 1849. I’ve
survived boom times and bust! I’ve seen days of glory and I’ve burned to the ground three times each time to be rebuilt in a manner that was better than what was lost. I’ve been the home to some great and famous pioneers and early explorers, John C. Fremont is perhaps the best known to modern day historians. I’ve been the host to presidents, like Teddy Roosevelt, movie stars and other well-known personages. Most of all, I represent the “spirit” of the REAL old west and what has made California one of the great success stories over the past 160-years. I’m “Old Town” Mariposa, a historic Gold Rush mining town on the Highway 140 entrance to Yosemite National Park. I’m where “History Lives”.
