Community of San Martin - San Martin, CA - E Clampus Vitus Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

COMMUNITY OF
SAN MARTIN
MARTIN MURPHY, A NATIVE OF IRELAND, AND
HIS LARGE FAMILY CAME TO CALIFORNIA IN
1844 AND SETTLED ON THE SAN FRANCISCO DE
LAS LLAGAS GRANT, WHICH WAS LATER PATENTED
TO DANIEL MURPHY, ONE OF HIS SONS. AS A
DEVOUT ROMAN CATHOLIC, MARTIN MURPHY
FOLLOWED THE SPANISH CUSTOM AND NAMED
HIS SETTLEMENT IN HONOR OF HIS PATRON
SAINT, ST. MARTIN OF TOURS.

THE MURPHY-STEVENS-TOWNSEND WAGON TRAIN
LEFT COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA, IN MAY 1844. THE
TRAIL THAT THEY MADE OPENED THE EMIGRANT
TRAIL FOR THE DONNER PARTY TWO YEARS
LATER AND BECAME THE ROUTE OF THE
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD THROUGH THE
SIERRA MOUNTAINS.
DEDICATED JUNE 11, 1983 BY THE
CITIZENS OF THE COMMUNITY OF SAN MARTIN
AND MOUNTAIN CHARLIE CHAPTER No.1850
E CLAMPUS VITUS

"RIGHT WRONGS NOBODY"

CALIFORNIA REGISTERED POINT OF
HISTORIC INTEREST No. SCL-054

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