Interview: Mrs. Robert Barron Ball
Title: Early History of Soulsbyville [sound recording] : a tape recorded interview by Bess Kirton. / Mrs. Robert Barron Ball.
Interviewee: Ball, Robert Barron, Mrs.
Recording Location: Soulsbyville, CA
Date Recorded: November 15, 1977
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Direct Link: https://apps.gocolumbia.edu/oralhistory/listen?8
Call Number: F868.T915 B187
Author(s): Kirton, Bess.
Year Recorded: 1977
Performer: Interviewed by Bess Kirton.
Performer: Interviewed by Bess Kirton.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (3 audio files (88 min., 39 sec.).
Series Title: (Columbia Colllege oral history series)
General Notes: Contents outline (typescript, photoprint) accompanies recording.
Contents: Tape 1, Side 1: Barron Store: Transportation of groceries and dry goods, Source of supplies ; Windmill ; Water supply ; Old buildings and homes--School house, hotel, Odger's Butcher Shop ; Discovery of gold in Soulsbyville ; Ranchers and homesteaders in area before mines ; W. H. Barron, prohibitionist--ran for Senate ; Cornish miners: Pastes, Families interrelated ; Communication: Postal service ; High school: Transportaion to Sonora ; Christmas celebration ; Dynamo House -- Tape 1, Side 2: Dynamo (cont'd.) ; Chinese: Chinese New Year ; Soulsbyville Elementary School ; Indians: Record book of Indian purchases at Barron store, Indian possessions burned when they died ; Old building sites where Jones Mill now stands: Post Office--Mrs. Jones postmistress, "Pigeon holes" from old post office still preserved--Store and other buildings ; Lumber ; Mines: Housing ; Other Soulsbyville families ; Band of Hope ; Good Templers Lodge: Prohibition basic principle, Source of local recreation -- Tape 2, Side 1: Silver Coronet Band ; Recreation: Dancing, Baseball, Picnics ; Cornish Carols ; Soulsbyville Methodist Episcopal Church ; Recalling Old Soulsbyville: Lion followed her home, Horses, wagons and surr, Lover's Lane, Riding horseback to Sonora to see Mrs. Evaline Nicholls in hospital with first baby, Horseracing ; Old Cemetery ; Mrs. Ball's family ; Soulsbyville today: Few old families left, "Johnny-Come'Latelys", No community social life ; Family camping.
Local Notes: Recorded November 15, 1977.
Held By: COLUMBIA
Personal Subject:
Personal Subject:
Geographic Term: Soulsbyville (Calif.)--History--Personal narratives.
Geographic Term: Tuolumne County (Calif.)--History--Personal narratives.
