Without knowing it at the time, Allison Orrum Hunter Cowan Bowers was to keep the name of Gold Hill from ever being forgotten. "Eilley", as she was known, was born in Scotland and somehow found her way to America and, ultimately, to Gold Hill. A Stephen Hunter converted her to the Mormon faith and when she reached her fifteenth birthday, hustled her off to Nauvoo, Illinois, where they were married in the church. Eilley did not take kindly to having another woman share her husband's bed when he took a second wife under the policy of bigamy. She became the ex-Mrs. Hunter and married Alexander Cowan, also a Mormon and settled in Salt Lake City. Soon, the Church sent them to colonize the area near Genoa, Nevada. Not long after, Brigham Young recalled all the Mormon settlers in far off places. Eilley refused to go and bade her second husband goodbye. She stayed in Nevada. She followed the exodus to Gold Hill where she met and married a Sandy Bowers. Together they amassed a fortune of millions of dollars from claims others thought practically worthless. With tremendous wealth at her disposal, Eilley decided to build a home that would rival any in the state of Nevada. She did exactly that in 1862, building a mansion that would cost $300,000 and would be expensively furnished with items bought on a two-year tour of Europe. This was her dream, but not her husband's. He refused to live in the great house, preferring to join his old friends in the saloons of Gold Hill. In 1868, Sandy Bowers became suddenly ill and died. He was thirty-five years old. She was 49 years old. Misfortune suddenly descended upon Eilley, forcing her to sell the great house. The decline in her fortunes continued and she died in 1903, a lonely, penniless and broken woman. Today, the house and grounds are part of a county park. The mansion is intact and is open to visitors. The fitting conclusion is the resting-place of Sandy, Eilley and an adopted daughter, Persia, on a hill a few yards behind the great house. Submitted by Henry Chenoweth.

Gold Hill was never a town or even a settlement. It was a mining complex to process ore from a group of claims that included the Gold Hill mine. Miming operations began in 1927 and ended in 1933 when ore values began to fall. Miners worked the Gold Hill mine periodically but not to any great extent to 1942. Production value from 1930 to 1942 for the Gold Hill mine and other operations stands at just under $1,000,000. Only the mine hoist and foundations for the mill exist.