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Johntown may refer to: * Johntown, Georgia *Johntown, Nevada See also *Johnstown (other) Johnstown may refer to: Places Australia * Johnstown, Queensland, a locality split between the Southern Burnett Region and the Gympie Region, Queensland Canada * Johnstown, Nova Scotia * Johnstown, Ontario, United Counties of Leeds and Grenvil ...
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Johntown, Georgia
Johntown is an extinct town in Dawson County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. History A post office called Johntown was established in 1879, and remained in operation until 1944. The community was named after John S. Holden, an early postmaster. References Geography of Dawson County, Georgia Ghost towns in Georgia (U.S. state) {{DawsonCountyGA-geo-stub ...
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Johntown, Nevada
Johntown is a ghost town in Lyon County, Nevada United States. It was originally an important mining camp in Gold Canyon, midway between Dayton, Nevada and Silver City. In the late 1850s, Johntown was the largest mining camp in the western Utah Territory. History The Johntown camp was first established in the early 1850s when teamster, James Fenemore, set up a mining camp next to the Gold Canyon road. Two years earlier, emigrants journeying to California, had discovered gold at the entrance to Gold Canyon near Dayton. For the next 10 years, miners worked the area, "sluicing the placer deposits with primitive rockers and long toms, recovering limited amounts of gold." The canyon was populated just a few months out of the year, when water was available for sluicing. Johntown settlement was the site of the first newspaper published in Nevada. In the mid 1850s and handwritten on foolscap, a single copy of the ''Gold Canyon Switch'', was passed from miner to miner to deliver ...
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