Believe It or Not! (-: James Green WEIR, my Great Grandfather, was a contractor in Forestville, California. He specialised in hop kilns (!), private homes, and is said to have built a church completely from one tree, which stands today. The Church of One Tree was built in 1873 from a single redwood tree milled in Stumptown, later named Guerneville, California. The tree used to construct the Church stood 275 feet high and was 18 feet in diameter. Robert Ripley, a native of Santa Rosa, wrote about the Church of One Tree — where his mother attended services, — as one of his earliest installments of “Believe It or Not!” In 1970, Ripley repurposed the Church of One Tree as the Ripley Memorial Museum which was stocked with curiosities and “Believe it or Not!” memorabilia for nearly two decades. Time for a Pilgrimage... to the Hopkiln Winery! (-:
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:18:57 +0000
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