Sacramento >> The Lake County documentary film “A Walk Through Time: The Story of Anderson Marsh” received a Governor’s Historic Preservation Award for 2015 at the 30th annual Governor’s Historic Preservation Awards ceremony.
Representatives from all over California traveled to the capitol on Nov. 19 to honor 11 historic preservation projects at the Clunie Community Center in McKinley Park. Each project has been recognized for its contribution to promote and highlight California history.
The Anderson Marsh documentary “is a film project that preserves through cinematic imagery and narration, the cultural, historic, and natural significance of the region in and around Anderson Marsh State Historic Park,” according to the California Office of Historic Preservation, which presents the awards. “The film is the result of a highly successful collaboration between California State Parks, the Koi Nation of Northern California, the Advanced Laboratory of Visual Anthropology (ALVA) at California State University Chico, renowned archaeologists John Parker and Greg White, and public stakeholders.”
The film traces the Koi people’s history and culture. They were the first to colonize the Anderson Marsh area and remained there until the 1840s, when they were driven off their land by the influx of non-native settlers.
The 1,300-acre Anderson Marsh State Historic Park in 1982 was established to protect the area’s significant natural and historical resources. The marsh is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its prehistoric archeological significance.
