From the old days

I found this firebox door from a woodstove in the creek near the location of Wiley Burrough's house as shown on the 1891 Fresno County Parcel Map. Burrough, born in 1811 according to his grave marker in Watts Valley Cemetery, was living in Watts Valley when Andrew Firebaugh moved here in the early 1860's to homestead near the confluence of Watts Creek and Sycamore Creek at the eastern end of the series of tiny valleys that make up Watts Valley.