Lost California Treasure

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

  • La Porte Placer District ghost town · La Porte (formerly Rabbit Creek), Plumas County · Medium probability

    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.

  • Stoddard's Gold Lake Legend buried cache · Lakes Basin Recreation Area, Plumas County · Low probability

    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.