Eldoradoville was a
gold mining
Gold mining is the extraction of gold resources by mining. Historically, mining gold from alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning. However, with the expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface ...
town in
Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States and in the U.S. state of California, with 9,861,224 residents estimated as of 2022. It is the ...
, located in the
San Gabriel Mountains
The San Gabriel Mountains ( es, Sierra de San Gabriel) are a mountain range located in northern Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino County, California, United States. The mountain range is part of the Tr ...
. Established in 1859, after gold had been discovered in the river in 1855, Eldoradoville at its peak population had three stores and six saloons.
It was washed away on January 18, 1862, in the
Great Flood of 1862
The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of Oregon, Nevada, and California, occurring from December 1861 to January 1862. It was preceded by weeks of continuous rains and snows in the very high elevations that began in ...
.
Federal Writers Project, David Kipen, ''Los Angeles in The 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of Angels'', University of California Press, 2011, p. 303
/ref> One historian described it as "the Downieville of the south—a rough and tough miner's town."
The site of Eldoradoville is on the East Fork of the San Gabriel River, on the north side of East Fork Road
East Fork Road, located in the San Gabriel Mountains above the city of Azusa, California, is a road that gives access from State Route 39 into East Fork and other small townships, including Camp Williams, and Julius Klein Conservation Fire Camp ...
, where the Eldoradoville Campground is located at an elevation of 1866 ft.
References
External links
MICHAEL WARREN, California’s First Gold Rush from www.goldgold.com
East Fork always wins in battle with man, San Bernardino Sun, 01/05/2009
Former settlements in Los Angeles County, California
Former populated places in California
Populated places established in 1859
1859 establishments in California
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