Gullion's Bar was a
placer 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, ...
camp on the
Salmon River, now located in
Siskiyou County, California
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It was located originally in
Trinity County, in 1850.
[Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California, Vol. VI, 1848-1859, The History company, San Francisco, 1888, p.370][ Theodore Henry Hittell, History of California, Volume 3, N. J. Stone, San Francisco, 1897, p.140](_blank)
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Gullion's Bar was one of the largest gold producers in Trinity County in 1850, along with Negro Flat, Bestville, and Sawyers Bar
Lawyers Bar (also, Sawyers Bar) was a settlement in Klamath County now Del Norte County, California
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. In 1851, it became part of Klamath County. Eventually the Gullion's Bar placers played out. However, another strike on Nordheimer's Creek in the summer of 1858, on the same section of the Salmon River, revived the camp on what is now Nordheimer Flat. By 1868 it was equipped with a 2-mile ditch, to provide water to the mines.
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Settlements formerly in Trinity County, California
Settlements formerly in Klamath County, California
Former populated places in Siskiyou County, California
Populated places established in 1850
1850 establishments in California
Ghost towns in California
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