10/7/2024
10/7/2024
10/7/2024
Landmark information
- Location:
Rich Bar, on Hwy 70 (pm 18.8), 4 mi SE of Belden, 23.6 mi NW of Quincy - Plaque:
Official State Plaque - Site:
Existing - Date First Visited:
7/31/2003 - Date Most Recently Visited:
10/7/2024 - GPS Coordinates:
N 40 0.555, W 121 11.457
About this landmark
Plaque text:
Gold first found here July 1850 by miners coming over mountains from the Yuba diggins. Much production during early 'fifties along this East Branch of the Feather River's North Fork. Here "Dame Shirley" (Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe) wrote her "Letters from the California Mines," one of the foremost classics of the Gold Rush.