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Home › Historical Archive › College Origins › Oakridge Institute of Forestry and Land Sciences Oakridge Institute of Forestry and Land Sciences In 1918, after seven years of argument over the will, the town's trust opened a forestry school on the old Hartwell ...

Home › Township › Families › Thayer › The Thayer Family A Brief History After the Hartwells, the Thayers were the richest family in town. Lyman Thayer arrived from Massachusetts in 1859 as clerk and timekeeper of Hartwell Timber Co., kept its time book, paid i...

Home › Township › Families › Lathrop › The Lathrop Family A Brief History Orrin Lathrop came from New Hampshire and opened a store on the mill road in 1862, the year the saws started. He sold to the crews on credit against their wages and did well out of Hartw...

Home › Township › Families › Lathrop › Seth Lathrop Seth Lathrop Born 1981, Briarmont Lives Briarmont Family The Lathrop Family Occupation Carpenter and contractor Seth Lathrop is a carpenter and contractor who works mostly on buildings from the mill years. Se...

Home › Township › Families › Spurling › The Spurling Family A Brief History Hiram Spurling learned rigging in the Nova Scotia shipyards and sailed on coasting schooners before he came round to California. In 1862 he came north to build a lumber chute for the n...

Home › Township › Families › Spurling › Hiram Spurling Hiram Spurling Born 1835, Nova Scotia Died 1903, Briarmont Family The Spurling Family Occupation Rigger, seaman, landing boss Hiram Spurling learned his trade as a boy in the Nova Scotia shipyards, rigging...

Home › Township › Notable Figures › Cordelia Lathrop Cordelia Lathrop Born 1866, Briarmont Died 1949, Briarmont Family The Lathrop Family Occupation Storekeeper Cordelia Lathrop was born in 1866, the year the camp became a town, and grew up in the rooms over h...

Home › Township › Notable Figures › Kristin Spurling Kristin Spurling Born 1971, Briarmont Lives Briarmont, above the harbor Family The Spurling Family Occupation Harbormaster Kristin Spurling is the harbormaster of Briarmont. She assigns the moorings, runs th...

Home › Oakridge College › Oakridge Campus › Surveyors' Hall Surveyors' Hall Surveyors' Hall is named for the surveyors trained at the Oakridge Institute of Forestry and Land Sciences between 1918 and 1947. Their crews mapped the slides on the cut-over slopes a...

Home › Oakridge College › Oakridge Campus › Hartwell Manor Hartwell Manor Nobody named Hartwell has lived in Hartwell Manor since 1911, and most of Briarmont still calls it the old Hartwell place. Elias Hartwell built the brick house on the rise above town, wi...

Home › Historical Archive › Founding & Town Origins › Timeline of Briarmont 1848 - Gold in the Foothills People had lived along this coast long before any settler came to it. In January 1848 gold turned up at a sawmill in the Sierra foothills, and within a yea...

Home › Township › Setting & Landmarks › Key Landmarks › Key Landmarks Briarmont runs down to its harbor, and the college stands above the town on the old Hartwell estate. In town Town Hall, where the council meets and the Hartwell County Clerk keeps the origin...

Home › Township › Setting & Landmarks › Key Landmarks › The Crenshaw Oak The Crenshaw Oak The Crenshaw Oak was planted in 1918, the year the Institute opened on the old Hartwell estate, as a public sign of restoration. The cut-over slopes above Briarmont had b...

Home › Township › Setting & Landmarks › Key Landmarks › Astoria Towers Astoria Towers Astoria Towers went up in the 1920s to give the teachers and students of the Oakridge Institute of Forestry and Land Sciences rooms of their own. Until then they had boarded ...

Home › Township › Setting & Landmarks › Briarmont Township Briarmont Township Set along the Northern California coastline, Briarmont is a town shaped by redwoods, salt air and time. What began as a logging camp in the 19th century has grown into a coastal comm...

Home › Township › Civil Services › Community › Briarmont Improvement Club Briarmont Improvement Club The Briarmont Improvement Club keeps the flower beds outside Town Hall, plays bridge most weeks, raises a scholarship each spring for a Hartwell County student...

Home › Township › Peoples & Culture › The Women of Briarmont Township The mill town Bridget Nolan, a widow from County Cork, cooked for the camp from 1858 and opened a boarding house in 1866. Widows kept several of the other boarding houses on the mill road, s...

Home › Township › Peoples & Culture › Local News Outlets › The Hartwell County Courier The Hartwell County Courier Hartwell County was five years old when the first issue of The Hartwell County Courier came out in 1877. The early paper paid its way by printing...