Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California

The Chicken Ranch Casino Resort is a casino resort in Tuolumne County, California, United States. Founded in 1985 as the bingo hall Chicken Ranch Bingo Palace, it is owned by the Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California. The venue installed its earliest casino-like machines in 2000 and went through a remodeling in 2011 to have a Western theme. The casino underwent a $325 million extension in 2024. The new nine-story resort had 197 hotel rooms and several restaurants including a Wahlburgers. The new gaming facility added 900 slot machines and 14 table games.

The Emporium is a historic commercial building erected in 1897 in Jamestown, California. It was built as a department store which was short-lived, in the early 20th century served as a mercantile and telephone exchange, and from 1936 until 1967 it operated as a grocery store. It has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since February 17, 1978, for architecture and historical significance for the region; is also listed as a California Historical Landmark since February 17, 1978; and has a historical marker erected since 2007 by the Tuolumne County Historical Society. The building now serves as an antiques shop and cafe.

Track Bus No. 19 is a motorized rail car built on a White Motor Company standard truck chassis. It was built by Thomson-Graf-Edler in 1919 for the Hetch Hetchy Railroad and used as an ambulance to transport sick, injured or dead workers, and to carry passengers. An additional five similar railcars were ordered, none were exactly the same. The car sat unused after it was moved to Modesto, then was restored and displayed at the Yosemite Transportation Museum in El Portal. In 1997 No. 19 was donated to Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown California.

Railtown 1897 State Historic Park, and its operating entity, the Sierra Railway, is known as "The Movie Railroad." Both entities are a heritage railway and are a unit of the California State Park System. Railtown 1897 is located in Jamestown, California. The entire park preserves the historic core of the original Sierra Railway of California (later reincorporated as the Sierra Railroad). The railway's Jamestown locomotive and rolling stock maintenance facilities are remarkably intact and continue to function much as they have for over 100 years. The maintenance facilities are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Sierra Railway Shops Historic District.

French Flat or French Camp now a ghost town was in Tuolumne County, California. It was located near French Flat from which it took its name, one and a half miles south southwest of Tuttletown. Its location was near the flat, northwest of an 1,894-foot (577 m) mountain.

Jamestown is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tuolumne County, California, United States. The population was 3,433 at the 2010 census, up from 3,017 at the 2000 census. Formerly a California Gold Rush town, Jamestown is a California Historical Landmark since March 16, 1949. It is the home of Railtown 1897 State Historic Park and the Sierra Railway, which operates steam passenger trains.

Chinese Camp is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tuolumne County, California, United States. The population was 90 at the 2020 census, down from 126 at the 2010 census, which was down from 146 at the 2000 census. It lies in the grassy foothills of the Sierra Nevada near the southern end of California's Gold Country. Chinese Camp is California Historical Landmark #423, since 1949.

Table Mountain is a series of flat-topped hills in Tuolumne County, California that roughly parallels the modern Stanislaus River. These hills are capped by lava which flowed down from the crest of the Sierra Nevada 10.4 million years ago and hardened into a rock (latite) that is relatively resistant to erosion. The top of Table Mountain is composed of Table Mountain Latite, which formed from potassium-rich lavas erupted from a center of volcanism near modern-day Sonora Pass around 10.4 million years ago. Most outcrops on Table Mountain reveal flow-top breccias, while some outcrops show distinctive columnar jointing.

Tuolumne Wells Fargo Express Company Building is a historical building in Chinese Camp, California Tuolumne County, California. The Tuolumne Wells Fargo Express Company Building is a California Historical Landmark No. 140 listed on June 6, 1934. The Tuolumne Wells Fargo Express Company Building was built in 1849. Construction was done by the Walkerly brothers. After the Wells Fargo Express moved out the Morris brothers took ownership of the building and it became a general store. Morris brothers also worked with the Adams Express Company. The original express agents were Sol Miller, C. W. H. Solinsky, and the Morris brothers. Fire from the many wooden buildings and the used of lanterns and candles for lighting made early California Gold Rush have many fires. The Tuolumne Wells Fargo Express Company Building was made of brick, with iron doors and iron window shutters to protect it from fires. The Tuolumne Wells Fargo Express Company Building is at Main Street and Solinsky Alley in Chinese Camp. The marker was placed there by California Office of Historic Preservation. At Tuolumne Wells Fargo Express Company Building is a marker: To Honor Eddie Webb The marker reads: Born December 17, 1880, in Snelling, Calif. One of the last of the stage drivers, Eddie made the haul from Chinese Camp to the Coulterville, Groveland areas between 1898-1902 and drove the first mail stage over the new Shawmut Road. Place by E Clampus Vitus on May 6, 1961.

Paulsell Valley is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) located within Paulsell Valley, in Stanislaus County, California. The Paulsell Valley occupies some of the first rises out of the San Joaquin Valley floor, and, as such, is described as part of the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The appellation was established as the nation's 264th, the state's 145th and county's fourth AVA on June 3, 2022 by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), Treasury after reviewing the petition submitted by Patrick L. Shabram on behalf of Rock Ridge Ranch proposing the establishment of a viticultural area named "Paulsell Valley." The Paulsell Valley viticultural area encompasses approximately 34,155 acres (53 sq mi) and home to three vineyards cultivating about 864 acres (350 ha) with a fourth vineyard of approximately 700 acres (280 ha) currently planned. The Paulsell Valley is not currently within or adjacent to any existing AVA. The closest existing AVA is Sierra Foothills located approximately one mile (1.6 km) to the northeast at its closest location. The plant hardiness zone is 9b.

Tuttletown (formerly, Mormon Gulch and Tuttleville) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tuolumne County, California. It is located on State Route 49 near the gold rush community of Columbia. Tuttletown sits at an elevation of 1,047 feet (319 m). The 2010 United States census reported Tuttletown's population was 668.

New Melones Dam is an earth and rock filled embankment dam on the Stanislaus River, about 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Jamestown, California, United States, on the border of Calaveras County and Tuolumne County. The water impounded by the 625-foot-tall (191 m) dam forms New Melones Lake, California's fourth-largest reservoir, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada east of the San Joaquin Valley. The dam serves mainly for irrigation water supply, and also provides hydropower generation, flood control, and recreation benefits. The dam was authorized in 1944 as a unit of the federal Central Valley Project, a system designed to provide irrigation water to the fertile agricultural region of the Central Valley. It would be built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), and transferred to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) upon completion. In 1966, work began to clear the foundations for a high dam that would replace an earlier, much smaller structure built by two irrigation districts. Construction of the main embankment began in 1976, and was topped out in late 1978. The filling of New Melones Lake began in 1978, and the dam's hydroelectric station produced its first power in mid-1979. New Melones was the focus of a long environmental battle during the 1970s and early 1980s; critics protested the flooding of a long scenic stretch of the Stanislaus River, which flowed over whitewater rapids through the deepest limestone canyon in the western United States. The protestors employed a variety of methods, some extreme, to prevent the filling of New Melones Lake until 1983, when record-setting floods filled the reservoir and nearly breached the dam's emergency spillway. The fight over New Melones galvanized the river conservation movement in California and influenced major water policy changes on the state and federal levels; since its completion, no other dams of its size or importance have been built in the United States.The New Melones project has continued to generate controversy, due to the water yield from the project being lower than expected, and the use of New Melones water to meet federal environmental standards at the expense of farming. The reservoir is considered "over-allocated"; in an average year, it is unable to meet all the demands placed on it. The debate over water rights continues today, with environmentalists seeking to further increase fishery flows, and the Stanislaus irrigation districts asserting their senior rights to the river.