Visiting the Redwoods in nineteenth-century California meant coming to Big Trees Grove, now part of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park.
As a world-renowned resort for sixty years, Big Trees Grove hosted thousan.
Saved from the logger\'s axe by Joseph Warren Welch in 1867, these were the first coastal Redwoods preserved for public recreation.
This forest of giants in the Santa Cruz Mountains attained fame through the 1846 exploits of explorer John Charles Fr mont, whose namesake tree still stands.
Visiting the Redwoods in nineteenth-century California meant coming to Big Trees Grove, now part of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park