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Jackson, California

44-46 Main Street - (Historical Building)

John Head lived here in 1851, Victorian facade covers plastered, remodeled brick of 1863 building.


48 Main Street - (Historical Building)

The Stecklers Building - This historic corner leading to the court house was first "a county clerk's shanty" when Jackson's Creek became county seat of Calaveras, July 1, 1851. In the mid-1850's building boom, Charles Steckler and partner erected a 2-story brick. It succumbed to the 1862 fire, but was rebuilt. With a back addition, its substantially the same building. upstairs from 1854 to 1862 was the Jackson Masonic Lodge. The Oddfellows also used the hall until they bought their own building down the street.

114-118 Main Street - (Globe Hotel Building)

Prior to the Globe Hotel, William A. Phoenix was sheriff and had a bar here. In 1858 the bar was bought out and its builders constructed the Republican House

More on the Globe Hotel


122 Main Street

The Garibaldi's operated a store here for many years. It is still owned by the Garibaldi Family.

The current business here is "Heaven & Earth"

126 Main Street

126 Main street, Bowling alley in 1857. Was Miners Saloon & Restaurant. Was a sausage factory in 1898




Information, photographs courtesy of the Amador County Archives, The Historical Marker Database, The Chronicling America Database, and Larry Cenotto, Amador County's Historian

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