° Rare original oil painting for sale: Signed by K. Haskell° Captain Elisha Sears' wife dies at sea off of Calcutta.
° Historical background of Hollering Place, Coos Bay, Oregon provided by a reader
° Count Haraszthy develops vineyards in California
° Bibliography: 40+ years of reading, travel and research is the base for The Maritime Heritage Project. A list-in-progress of all references is underway.
° Search Engine: 30,000 ships, captains and passengers on this site.
° View the growing selection of books on California history and maritime matters during the mid 1800s. For your convenience, links are provided to Amazon.com. Also, recommend reading is noted throughout the site in sections as applicable.
° The Clipper era
° The French in San Francisco
° November 1850: The number of passengers who have crossed the Isthmus on their way to California January 1 to August 1 amounts to 13,375 . . .
° The Chronicles of Captain William Jackson Barry, who arrived in San Francisco on the Eleanor Lancaster, the first ship to leave Sydney, Australia for California's gold fields.