Blue Mountain City, California

Blue Mountain City is a former settlement in Calaveras County, California,[1] along Licking Fork, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Mountain Ranch.[2] A post office operated in Blue Mountain from 1863 to 1864.[2][3]

Blue Mountain is also the name of a mining district located 10 miles southeast of West Point, California that includes the Black Wonder, Gold King and Heckendorn mines.[4]

References

  1. "A Deserted Mining Camp". Stockton Daily Evening Record. September 11, 1895. p. 4. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  2. Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 806. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
  3. Gudde, Erwin G. (2009). California Gold Camps: A Geographical and Historical Dictionary of Camps, Towns, and Localities Where Gold Was Found and Mined; Wayside Stations and Trading Centers. p. 41. ISBN 9780520261440. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  4. Clark, William B. (1998). Gold Districts of California. Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology. p. 31. Retrieved October 21, 2020.

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