Lower Lake Stone Jail now defunct, and has been designated California Historical Landmark #429. Lower Lake Stone Jail Lower Lake Stone Jail, in Lower Lake, California, is a one-room jail claimed to be the smallest jail in the United States, was erected in 1876 of stone locally quarried and reinforced with iron. During the days of the first quicksilver operations of the Sulphur Bank Mine, lasting from 1873 to 1883, rapid town growth and the urgent need for civil order necessitated the building of a jail. Stephen Nicolai, one of the first stonemasons in Lower Lake, built the jail from local materials with the
Steamboats of the Lower Fraser River and Harrison Lake Steamboats of the Lower Fraser River and Harrison Lake This article is about Steamboats of the Lower Fraser River and Harrison Lake. The first steamboat on the Fraser River was the which entered Pacific waters in 1835. It was an itinerant supply for the Hudson's Bay Company roving throughout the lower Columbia River in Oregon and around coastal Washington, British Columbia and southeastern Russian America (Alaska), long before those political entities came into being. It was only the Fraser River Gold Rush and the Cariboo Gold Rush of 1862 which drew more steamers from the Columbia River in Oregon to