Plumas County Treasure Map
Plumas County California treasure-history records: ghost towns, buried caches, source links, land-status warnings, field notes, and interactive map links.
2 Plumas County Records
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La Porte Placer District
Originally settled as 'Rabbit Creek' in 1850, La Porte became one of the most famous hydraulic and drift mining districts in the Northern Sierra. The district targeted a highly productive Tertiary river channel (the La.
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Stoddard's Gold Lake Legend
In 1850, Thomas Robertson Stoddard arrived at a mining camp claiming he had found a lake in the high Sierras whose shores were littered with pure gold. While the legendary 'Gold Lake' was never located, the massive.