GOLD DUST
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GOLD DUST |
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NAME: Gold
Dust COUNTY: Sierra ROADS: 2WD GRID #(see map): 4 CLIMATE: Mild winter, warm summer BEST TIME TO VISIT:Spring, winter, fall |
COMMENTS:
NE of Hillsboro. REMAINS: Two structures remain. |
| Tent cities in the late 1870s/early 1880s, both were abandoned when gold fever subsided. Miner George Wells was reported to have taken $90,000 in gold dust and nuggets from nearby Wicks Gulch in 1877. North of Gold Dust was Andrews, a mining town with its own post office from 1898-1907 and about 100 people in 1905. Courtesy Michael Cook. |
 On of Gold Dust's two remaining structures. Courtesy Michael Cook. |
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