The Historic Sonora Walking Tours for Tuolumne County's fourth grades are a cooperative educational program hosted by the City of Sonora and the Tuolumne County Historical Society. These tours are held in May of every year.
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Here are some pictures of the Walking Tours

  
Hard Luck Lin and Jim Opie starting a tour at the Sonora Opera Hall

A tour gets started

Jim Garaventa at the Volunteer Fire Museum showing students a talking horn and the hand pumper
  

Hard Luck Lin at Coffill Park which was once a stable and students listening for the ghosts of the past.

Students are greeted at the Tuolumne County Museum which was the first jail.

 
While at the Museum students are shown a small version of a stamp mill by Gary Davidson and Bea Sutherland shows them the iron doors of an old jail cell.

 
Students also learn how gold was discovered in Sonora and what life was like in late 1800's.

A visit to the Historic Sugg House.

The City of Sonora
Special Programs Department
94 N. Washington Street
Sonora, CA 95370
Phone:(209) 532-7725
Fax:(209) 532-3511