Ely Stage Stop and Country Museum

Dee Doyle

What a wonderful place! Volunteers make this a splendid choice--history, artifacts, genuinely friendly people! And music to make the toes tap and hearts sing...what more is needed to make for a delightful experience?!!!!!

Vern Gosden

Great place to stop and check out local history. Cool old farm implements. Blue Grass music the 1 st. Sunday of each month.

John Parker

As the collections manager and resident archaeologist at the Ely Museum, I can honestly say that the people who run the place will leave you with a real sense of what life was like in the mid to late 1800's in a remote part of California's back country. Visitors can learn about how a stage stop was run and about the highwaymen (Buck English and Black Bart) who frequently robbed those stages and their passengers. Free events happen all the time, like the first Sunday fiddler's jam. 10-15 bluegrass players entertain in the barn from noon till 2. Come, bring a picnic, and enjoy. Also hay rides, etc.

carol matson

As a docent at the museum, I find the place to be a rich source of authentic (and interesting) Lake County historical information.