He has been featured in several television programs, writes for Lost Treasure Magazine, wrote Mysteries of Tahoe – Lost Treasure, and is currently working on a second book. Also See. California – The Golden …

A California State Park, the district includes the workings of Malakoff Diggins adjacent to the ghost town of North Bloomfield. ... In 1893 Congress passed a law that all hydraulic mines must be licensed, but the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company ignored the ruling. In 1896, the mining company was found in contempt of this law and was ...

From the mill to the mine, visitors will travel east on Ashford Canyon Road for three miles and then hike about 1.25 miles up Ashford Canyon to the mine site. Following the remnants of the old road up the Canyon will make for an easier hike. Compiled and edited by Kathy Weiser-Alexander/Legends of America, updated November 2021.

Sitting on the western outskirts of Death Valley in Inyo County, California, tiny Darwin, a semi-ghost town today, was once the largest city in the county. The settlement started in early 1860 when a prospecting expedition led by Dr. E. Darwin French set out from Visalia, California, searching for the Lost Gunsight Mine and a place that had long been referred …

Legends of America Traveling through American history, destinations & legends since 2003. ... a former California Goldrush prospector, traveled with several other men to look for gold in Arizona. In 1863, he came across a quartz outcropping containing gold. ... Arizona's Lost Mines. Mining and Miners in Arizona. Vulture Arizona Photo Gallery.

The ore found in the desert was nicknamed the Lost Gunsight Mine, which began a mining boom for over a century. 20 Mule Team Wagon, Harmony Borax Works, Death Valley, California, Kathy Alexander. From the …

Two of the most famous lost mines are the Lost Dutchman Mine of Arizona and Pegleg Smith's Mine of Southern California. To this day, both lost mines are actively sought after by old time prospectors and treasure …

Lost Soldier Mine – In the early 1870s soldiers from Fort Tucson ran into a waterhole filled with gold nuggets ... Secret Pass – A wagon train of Spanish priests headed from Mexico to California was loaded with all the religious refinements need to establish a new mission. However, while in the area of Secret Pass, the wagon train was ...

 — This mysterious tale refers to the now lost lake which Lingard had discovered in 1853 while exploring the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. A small …

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Marin County – Not all lost treasures of California are related to the Gold Rush.During the wild and wooly days of Prohibition, a German whiskey smuggler named Carl Hause was doing a brisk business. Hause's …

No doubt Murrieta would have soon gone after the lost loot, but the California Rangers killed him before he could retrieve the gold. The Old Carrizo Stage Station, which once served the Butterfield Stage Station, …

The Humbug Creek Mine was found in Siskiyou County, California in the 1850s, but the man who found it soon died and today it is lost.

In July, the Los Angeles Mining Review reported that the Skidoo Mine was second only to the Keane Wonder in production in California in 1909. All indebtedness of the Skidoo Mines Company was cleared away by this time, and the first dividend, aggregating $50,000, was being paid in July at five cents a share.

Tales of Lost Treasure in the United States plus general articles for treasure hunters. Menu. ... Abandoned Mine Areas. The New Geocache Craze. Places to Search Around Old Home Sites . ... ©Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated March 2023. Share this with friends. What's New.

Lost Mines in Arizona by James Harvey McClintock. Menu. Legends of America ... Written by James Harvey McClintock in 1913, compiled and edited by Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated April 2023. ... He died in California on …

However, like other mining boom towns, ia City eventually began to decline, beginning in 1877. From the time it was first established through its decline, ia City suffered five widespread fires, the worst of which was dubbed the "Great Fire of 1875," which burned nearly 75% of the town and caused some 12 million dollars in damages.

The mad treasure-hunters of the California mines, restless, insubordinate, ... it was then that the western outfitting points of Walla Walla and ton lost their importance. ... Compiled and edited by Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated April 2024. Also See: Henry Plummer – Sheriff Meets a Noose.

The bandits who were involved with the initial discovery of the rich ore of Panamint were also still there, along with numerous other outlaws who hoped to make their living more easily than working in the mines. According to legend, these original bandits had planned from the start to let the senators do all the work and then steal the bullion when it was …

Calico, California is an old West mining town that has been around since 1881 during the largest silver strike in California. With its 500 mines, Calico produced over $20 million in silver ore over a 12-year span. When silver …

Legendary Ghost Towns of California features the rich history and photographs of these old towns.

On the other hand, no other mill or reduction plant was mentioned in the area until Mrs. Grantham built the ore-processing plant at Warm Spring around 1937 to treat ore from her Gold Hill Mine. At an elevation of 6,000 feet, the spring is reached via a steep, rough road branching to the northwest about ¼ mile north of the junction of the Gold ...

Since the 1848 discovery of gold in California, Death Valley has experienced over 140 years of boom and bust mining, creating several ghost towns in the area. Little did those many miners passing through the area in 1849 know that there were vast deposits of gold, silver, copper, and borax just waiting to be taken out of the mountains and valley floor.

 — California's Lost Gold Mines and Gold Sites. A gold prospector investigates a sluice in California. Source: Wikimedia Commons. More than 500 mining camps sprang up seemingly overnight in …

A short drive north of Big Bear Lake is Holcomb Valley and what little remains of the historic ghost town of Belleville. During the 1860s, Holcomb Valley was the richest gold mining area of southern California, supporting some 10,000 residents.. Gold was first discovered here by William F. Holcomb in 1860.

For centuries, legends of an underground city and an ancient race in Death Valley have been told in the Paiute Legend of the Kingdom of Shin-au-av. This place, meaning "God's Land" or "Ghost Land," is sacred to the Paiute. According to the legend, thousands of years ago, an important Paiute chief lost his wife.

The soon-to-be bustling miners' camp of Sailors' Diggings, Oregon, started in 1851 after a group of sailors jumped ship in Crescent City, California.Working their way to the northwest, they discovered gold near the junction of Josephine and Canyon Creeks near O'Brien, Oregon.They called their camp Sailors' Diggings.

In 1912, Utah mining men acquired the Cerro Gordo group, whose property now consisted of tunnels, shafts, and an aerial tramway connecting the mine with the narrow-gauge Southern Pacific Railroad at Keeler, which had absorbed the old Carson & Colorado Railroad. Shipping 1,000 tons of ore daily, Cerro Gordo became the largest producer of …

On the cold morning of January 24, 1848, James Marshall, a construction foreman at Sutter's Mill, inspected the water flow through the mill's tailrace.The sawmill on the American River banks in Coloma, California, was owned by John A. Sutter, who desperately needed lumber to build a large flour mill.On that particular morning, Marshall found the …

 — Lost mines. The most common stories of fabulous hidden treasure swirl around the lost mines. Such claims as Arizona's Lost Dutchman and Lost Adams have …