I.O.O.F. Hall, Mokelumne Hill

The third floor is the reason this is a landmark. The building went up in 1854 with two storeys, and the Odd Fellows added a third for their lodge room later, which is said to have made it the first three-storey building in California outside the coastal towns. That is a superlative with two qualifiers built into it. The lodge was the kind of institution that outlasted the gold, and the hall is still on the corner. No plaque marks it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Columbia State Historic Park — 24 mi
  The Gem of the Southern Mines, still open for business on a car-free Gold Rush main street.

More markers nearby

• Mokelumne Hill — steps away
• Calaveras County Courthouse and Leger Hotel — steps away
• Congregational Church — steps away
• Big Bar — 1.0 mi