You searched for City|State: johannesburg, ca
Showing results 1 to 3 of 3
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10FJ_the-baltic-mine-project_Johannesburg-CA.html
Few local miners still burrow underground, lured by the rich yellow gleam of gold. Most gold now recovered from California's Rand Mining District is microscopic in size, and so finely dispersed that it is invisible to the naked eye. Rock containin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10FI_historic-randsburg_Johannesburg-CA.html
Rand Camp began as a tent city, erected by eager miners who rushed to the Mojave Desert following a major gold discovery in April 1895. A year later, the town of 1,500 had been renamed "Randsburg." Saloons sprouted, a U.S. Post Office was establis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10F5_whitehouse-saloon_Johannesburg-CA.html
The Whitehouse SaloonThe Whitehouse Saloon was thought to first open as Whitehouse in the late "Teens" under the management of H.B. "Moses" Elder and his brother Emmett Elder. It was closed down by Prohibition in 1920 and operated as restaurant du…