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Madam Felix-Hodson District Gold Mines & Mills, Southern Edge Salt Spring Valley, Copperopolis, Calaveras County, CA
LocationSouthern Edge Salt Spring Valley,
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER CA-76
Building/structure dates:
1870 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1929 subsequent work
Significance: The Madam Felix-Hudson Mining District is significant in that it contains remains representing the entire span of mining activities in this area, from the middle 1850s through to the present day. Evidence for the earliest small stamp mills constructed between 1858 and 1865 could not be located, although sites and foundations were found for the seven stamp mills constructed in the period 1870-1930. These mills are characteristic of the type used throughout the gold-mining districts of California, especially the Mother Lode. They became obsolete during the first two or three decades of this century and only a very few, mostly incomplete examples, have been preserved in California.
Related Names
Roberts, A. E.
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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