Today in history April 19, 1880, California’s first commercially successful oil well was patented, just west of present-day ...

The best accounts from that day are in a book called “Marshfield and Her Cyclone.” A school teacher named Maria Wilson gathered eyewitness accounts a year after the cycle in 1881. There’s one quote ...

Few of the early settlements of what became Chaffee County remain as towns, but their place in history lives on. The ...