Posted On: 09/05/2013 8:55:30 AM
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The Eureka Mining District is an extensive area of scattered placer and a few lode deposits in northwestern Sierra County about eight miles northwest of Downieville. It includes the “diggings” not only at Eureka but also at Craig’s Flat, Morristown, and Saddleback Mountain. It is surrounded by a number of famous placer-mining districts: Downieville, Poker Flat, Port Wine, Poverty Hill, and Brandy City. The hydraulic mines here were worked on a major scale from the 1850s to the middle 1880s, and then intermittently on a smalll scale through the 1930s.
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