- What’s That For?
- Old Betsy
- Park Neighborhood
- Remember 1973?
- Land and Water
- Pacheco State Park
- Tractor Dealerships
- Settlement of Merced Co.
- Beyond Appearance
- MID Centennial
- Shaping Justice
- Yosemite Exhibit
- A Decade of Art Hopping
- Singing California
- Yosemite Lumber Co.
- Agricultural Centennial
- Grazie America!
- Ghost of Merced County
- Google That Road
- Gold Fever
- Inherit The Wind
- UC Merced at 10
- El Nido & Gustine
- Promoting Merced
- Mexican American Exp.
- Celebrate 125 Years
- A State of Change
- Weaving A Legacy
- Music History
- Civil Liberties
- Young Historians
- Merced College
- Following The Water
- Celebrating Women
- Colorful History
- Camera Club
- The Way We Camped
- Midcentury Merced
- Merced FD History
- Merced County Library
- Merced High Schools
- Endangered Species
- Merced on the Move
- Bear in Mind
- Waterfowl Heritage
- Radio of the Past
- Lewis and Clark Revisited
- Le Grand History
- Nature's Alphabet
- Old Fashioned Fun
- Black Gold
- Byways 2 Highways
- California Pottery
- The Vietnam Era
- Homes of Old Merced
- Ghost Towns
- Sesquicentennial Celebration
- Key Ingredients
- A Taste of History
- A Package Deal
- Sports and Recreation
- Audubon of the West
- Eyes of the Beholders
- Cattle Branding
- Japanese American Exp.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly:
A Colorful History of Merced County
A Colorful History of Merced County
Thursday, October 6, 2011
From 5:00p.m. to 7:00p.m
From 5:00p.m. to 7:00p.m
Opening on October 6, “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: A Colorful History of Merced County” will be the newest exhibit of the Merced County Courthouse Museum. It will explore little known history of Merced County from before the County’s inception in 1855 to the present day. Some highlights of the exhibit include the whereabouts of Joaquin Murrieta, the Snelling Wild West shoot-out, the legacy of freed slaves, avenging the honor of Rowena Steele, the Livingston connection of the Dalton Gang, the 1906 earthquake, the bootlegging affair, the 1931 fatal school bus accident, the heroic polio fights, and the underworld of vice king-Rusty Doan. At the opening reception on Thursday, October 6, Charlie Galatro will give a PowerPoint presentation entitled, “Heroes or Villains: Joaquin Murrieta and the Dalton Gang” at 6:00pm.
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Making Moonshine by the Merced River near Snelling during the Prohibition.  |
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Prohibition Raid in the 1920s: District Attorney F. M. Ostrander and Sheriff W. T. White  |