The Tuolumne City Memorial Museum preserves the history of this mining and logging town on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada in California.
[1] Tuolumne, which was originally known as Summerville, and later Carters, was the site of the West Side's large sawmill, which operated from 1899 until the 1960s, when it burned during a labor strike.
The company also operated an extensive narrow-gauge railroad into the Sierra to bring logs to the mill.
[2] Some trestles and other remnants of the logging railroad still exist, and the museum organizes annual field trips into the woods to visit such sites.
[3] The museum has a number of exhibits chronicling the lives of prominent citizens of the area, including a collection of family Bibles and historic cemetery records.