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Searching for Gold Imagine a pile of dirt as big as 6 football fields and two miles high. That pile of dirt use to be where you are now standing. It is called Oregon Mountain. Hydraulic mining dissolved 90% of this mound in the quest for go…
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This plaque is between the two sites first mined in '49. The rush came in 1850, when John Weaver & Co. ditched water from Lil' Weaver Creek, now Big Bar Creek taking out $100,000 in gold at Big Flat. Elizabeth Walton, mined here with her husband i…
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Ca?on City was established in 1851 and in 1852 had a pop. of 800. The town had a blacksmith shop, two stores, two hotels, one temperance hall, one bakery, two billiard saloons, two express houses, two saw mills, post office, and a one-room school.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11ZO_dedrick_Junction-City-CA.html
A mining town was settled here on Corral Bar in 1890, and named after Chloride Mine locator Dan C. Dedrick. The post office was established May 4, 1891. By 1902 the town boasted a school, 2 stores, 2 hotels, a restaurant, lodging house, livery, as…
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[Upper Marker:]On this site in 1852 a group of early settlers formed a mining community. The called it Milltown after the Seeley and Dowles water powered sawmill located near the mouth of Canyon Creek. In September 1861 this rapidly growing villag…
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Near this site in April, 1850, William S. Hamilton, the son of Alexander Hamilton, established the first store in the basin. During a business trip to Sacramento he died from cholera, August 7, 1850.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLSI_the-la-grange-mine_Junction-City-CA.html
This mine was originally known as the Oregon Mountain group of claims, first operated about 1862. In 1892 the mine was purchased by the La Grange Hydraulic Gold Mining Company which brought water from Stuart's Fork through 29 miles of ditch tunnel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLSH_bagdad_Junction-City-CA.html
On this site once stood the town of "Bagdad"Founded in the year of 1850 by pioneers Craven Lee and David Weed Peak of population five hundred Monument erected August 9, 1953 by Mt. Bally Parlor No. 87 N.S.G.W. Eltapome Parlor No. 55 N.D.G.W.
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