{"id":124661,"date":"2021-07-09T01:58:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T08:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=124661"},"modified":"2021-07-09T01:58:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T08:58:01","slug":"angels-camp-museum-foundation-kicks-off-25k-campaign-to-expand-the-pole-barn-exhibit-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=124661","title":{"rendered":"Angels Camp Museum Foundation Kicks off $25K Campaign to Expand the Pole Barn Exhibit Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angels Camp, CA…\u00a0Visitors will find it easier to navigate among exhibits, increase access for all, and improve the presentation across all exhibits. The Angels Camp Museum Foundation<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is kicking off a new fundraising campaign to raise $25,000 for the re-imagining of the Angels Camp Museum\u2019s Mining & Ranching Building exhibits.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Throughout the Mother Lode, starting in the late 1850s after the majority of surface Placer gold deposits were exhausted, many former miners began to take up farming and ranching. This economic shift foretold the future when mining would eventually give way to agriculture and cattle ranching in the foothills.<\/p>\n

\u201cChurchill once said \u2018The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see,\u2019 said Martin Huberty, Angels Camp Museum Executive Director. \u201cOur precious Gold Rush history is a reflection of who we are and should be celebrated and showcased. That\u2019s what this project is about \u2013 showcasing our many mining and ranching artifacts in the most engaging way possible,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

The Mining & Ranching Building (also known as the Pole Barn because of the style of construction) houses an extensive collection of Gold Rush era gold mining, ranching and farming equipment, each with a story to tell. Among the many mining-related Items found in the pole barn are a Rocker box (also known as a cradle), a gold mining implement for separating alluvial placer gold from sand and gravel and an automated stamp mill model showing how gold was extracted from hard rock.<\/p>\n

The Pole Barn is also home to a vast array of sizeable early farming and ranching technologies like the horse-drawn Self Raking Reaper and the Little Giant Thresher that was used to separate grain from the straw. Organizing these in a more meaningful way to better demonstrate how they worked is a key goal of the fundraising effort. Overall, funds raised will be used to:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Increase access and safe navigation of the large exhibit space, bringing it into ADA compliance;<\/p>\n

\u2022 Add a Blacksmith Shop and a General Store exhibit to the three existing Carpentry, Printing & Weaving artisan exhibits;<\/p>\n

\u2022 Complete the extensive rework of the museum\u2019s remarkable gem and mineral exhibit; and<\/p>\n

\u2022 Enable the Museum to better showcase the extensive collection of Farming, Mining and Ranching technologies that were all pioneered during the Gold Rush.<\/p>\n

The Angels Camp Museum has always had a strong bond with the community. That tie goes back to its very\u00a0beginning in 1950<\/a>\u00a0and continues to this day.<\/p>\n

Almost 60 years later, the Angels Camp Museum Foundation was established as a 501(c)3 Non-profit, tax exempt organization to facilitate fundraising, volunteer recruitment and program development of the museum.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor thirteen years the Foundation has supported the museum through specific projects and various campaigns,\u201d said Karen Strand, Museum Foundation President.\u00a0 \u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic posed some real challenges for our museum which resulted in the co-location with the Visitor\u2019s Bureau.\u00a0 It also helped strengthen and focus our commitment as the Museum Foundation to increasing our ability to preserve our important Gold Rush history and artifacts \u2013 including those that the Museum received from the now closed Old Timer\u2019s Museum in Murphy\u2019s.\u00a0 We couldn\u2019t be more excited about our new website and fundraising program; the entire board is honoured to be part of this team effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

Individuals and companies wishing to support this fundraising campaign can visit the new Foundation website and make a donation on our\u00a0campaign site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About the Angels Camp Museum Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Angels Camp Museum Foundation supports the development and expansion of the collections, programs and resources of the Angels Camp Museum in Angels Camp, Calaveras County, California, and\u00a0 to establish it as one of the premier local history and educational museums in Northern California.<\/p>\n

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Angels Camp, CA…\u00a0Visitors will find it easier to navigate among exhibits, increase access for all, and improve the presentation across all exhibits. The Angels Camp Museum Foundation\u00a0is kicking off a new fundraising campaign to raise $25,000 for the re-imagining of the Angels Camp Museum\u2019s Mining & Ranching Building exhibits. Throughout the Mother Lode, starting in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":124663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,19,20,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angels-camp","category-business","category-entertainment","category-featured","category-life-style","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/miningbarnangelsmuseum.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}