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About 1000 feet from this location is the track of the Transcontinental Railroad. In 1865 thousands of Chinese in Kwantung Provence China were recruited to work on this great connection between the East and West Coast . This monument is dedicated …
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Hydraulic mining shaped the reddish cliffs along this highway corridor. From the 1850's until 1885 jets of water were used to break down gold-laden gravel and to wash the material through gold separating devises called sluices. This practice was h…
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Founded in 1854 by O. W. Hollenbeck and originally called Mountain Springs. Famed for its hydraulic mines which from 1865 to 1878 shipped $6,125,000.00 in gold. Five large water ditches passed through the town serving the mining companies which ha…
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