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Holcomb Valley is a valley located in the San Bernardino Mountains about five miles north of Big Bear Lake. It was the site of some of the most prolific gold mines in Southern California. It was named after William F. Holcomb, who found gold there in 1860. Holcomb's discovery spurred the largest gold rush in the Southern California region. [1]
Goldstone Lake is a dry lake in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, 56 km (35 mi) northeast of Barstow. The lake is approximately 5 km (3.1 mi) long and 3 km (1.9 mi) at its widest point. Goldstone Lake is on federal lands within the borders of the Fort Irwin Military Reservation, southwest of the Granite Mountains.
Tulare Lake (/ t ʊ ˈ l ɛər i / ⓘ) or Tache Lake (Yokuts: Pah-áh-su, Pah-áh-sē) is a freshwater lake in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States. Historically, Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River . [ 2 ]
The former Overland Emigrant Trail, which was used by travelers from points east to the California gold fields, crosses the present day SR 49 near Wolf Creek. [50] Empire Mine was in constant operation from 1850 to the late 1950s. [51] Gold Hill in Grass Valley was the site of one of the first discoveries of quartz gold in California. [52]
Formerly known as Gold Mountain, it is located within the Plumas Eureka State Park. [4] Prospectors in search of the mystical Gold Lake discovered gold in a quartz outcrop on May 23, 1851, and gold mining continued until 1942. [5] [6] The mine's tramway may have served as the world's first ski lift. [7]
Kernville (previously Whiskey Flat, Rogersville, and Williamsburg) is a former settlement in the Kern River Valley of the Sierra Nevada, in Kern County, California.It lay at an elevation of 2,575 feet (785 m) near the present-day town of Wofford Heights; [1] the site was submerged under the Lake Isabella reservoir in 1954.
The mouth of Fine Gold itself is roughly 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east of where Fort Miller used to be (which is now under Millerton Lake). [5]The headwaters of the main Creek are on the south slope of Thornberry Mountain at 4,000 feet (1,200 m) above sea level, and its course downstream is overall in a south-westwards direction to the San Joaquin with a fall of 3,600 feet (1,100 m) along its ...
The Lost Sierra is a region bordered on the north by the North Fork of the Feather River, to the south by the North Fork of the Yuba River, to the west by the town of La Porte, one of the important gold towns of the late 1800s, and to the East by Eureka Peak – the mountain that appears on the Great Seal of the State of California. [3]