Lair of the sorcerer’s caldron | Ross Eric Gibson, Local History

Lair of the sorcerer’s caldron | Ross Eric Gibson, Local History

Davenport Landing, north of Davenport village, had a remarkable night life for a ghost town. (Ross Eric Gibson collection)Well-dressed women taking satisfaction in the banishing of booze from Orange County. (Public domain)The St. George Hotel on left, as it looked during Prohibition, keeping up the legacy of its founder Anson P. Hotaling, “the Whiskey King of San Francisco.” (Ross Eric Gibson collection)A still found in a hollow tree in Lompico …