The Bauman House was built circa 1910 and the foundation it sits on stretches even further back. I look forward to covering all of that in future posts but today we are focusing on the present day story of this adorable bungalow located in Sonora, CA, A.K.A. The Queen of the Southern Mines. I was born and raised in Southern California, and when I turned 18 my parents and younger siblings moved to northern California to be near family that lived there. A few years later they m