Ghost Town USA’s

Guide to the Ghost Towns, Mining Camps,

and Other Formerly Inhabited Places in

MARIPOSA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.

 

Locations beginning with A

 

 

 

ACORN INN

This old inn was located at the junction of SH 140/Triangle Road, about four AIR miles northeast of Mariposa.  In 2002 it housed a church and revival hall. 

In 1854, D. C. CLARK built a sawmill here.  His old family home is still standing across the highway from the old inn.  (Carolyn Feroben)

            …SEE also Clark’s Sawmill.

…SEE Sawmills for a listing of the various sawmills in Mariposa County.

…SEE Way Stations for a listing of the various way stations in Mariposa County.

 

ADAMS & CARTER MILL

In 1885, a Mr. ADAMS and CARTER owned a ten-stamp mill at an undetermined location.

 

ADELAIDE & ANDERSON MINE

One of many mines located in the Coulterville Mining District, which was located around the town of Coulterville.  It was active from the 1860s through the 1940s.  

 

AGUA FRIA (CHL #518)

         AKA – Agua Frio, Aqua Fria

Agua Fria was actually a pair of 1850s mining camps located about a mile apart.  The camps were located on Agua Fria Creek, a half mile east of the junction of SH 140/ Mt. Bullion Cutoff, north of SH 140, about 3.5 miles west of Mariposa.  PHOTOs!

LOWER AGUA FRIA was the main camp, and was located about a quarter-mile above Agua Fria Springs and Carson Creek. 

UPPER AGUA FRIA was also known as Poverty Flat.  It was

smaller than, and located about a mile northwest of Lower Agua Fria.  

 

AGUA FRIO

            …SEE Agua Fria

 

AHWAHNEE HOTEL

Located in Yosemite Valley east of Yosemite Village.  When automobiles began to arrive in the valley, the current hotel was built, opening its doors on July 14, 1925.  It replaced an earlier complex that served visitors arriving by pack train.

…SEE Way Stations for a listing of the various way stations in Mariposa County.

 

AKOZ MINE

This gold mine was located west of Lake McClure, north of Dry Creek, at a point 0.6 miles west of Merced Falls Road at Webb Station.

           

ALABAMA MINE

            One of many gold mines operating in the Sherlock-Whitlock area of the Whitlock Mining District.

It was consolidated with the Whitlock Mine into the Whitlock Group of Mines.  Exact location not determined.

 

ALTONS BAR

This early 1850s Merced River, placer gold-mining camp was located just below the confluence of the South Fork of the Merced River with the main branch of the Merced River, northeast of Mariposa.

           

ANDERSON RANCH

Actual location not determined.  Possibly on Anderson’s Flat, which is just south of the Tuolumne County line, 7.5 AIR miles northwest of El Portal.

 

ANITA MINE

In the Granite Springs Mining District, which is located in the upper northwest corner of the county, straddling the Tuolumne County line, north of Lake McClure.  Most of the gold mines in the district closed down by the 1930s.  Actual location of the mine is not determined.

 

AQUA FRIA

            …SEE Agua Fria

           

ARGO MINE                                            

This gold mine was located between Blackstone and Jordan Creeks, on the Mother Lode vein system, 7.0 AIR miles northeast of Coulterville.  Located in the Greeley Hill Mining District , which is part of the larger Kinsley Mining District.  It produced about $18,000 in gold. 

Photos:  (Photos courtesy of Ray Westmoreland.)

§  1939 photo showing Martin GLOVER in front of the headframe.

§  1939 photo of headframe.

§  1939 photo of a miner’s cabin.

§  2nd photo of a miners cabin in 1939.

 

ARKANSAS FLAT

This was an early 1900s hard rock gold-mining camp located along SH 140, about two miles west of Mariposa, and 0.5 mile east of Carson, on a ridge between Carson Creek and McBride Gulch.  In 1930 there were still remains of a miner’s cabin and a Chinese saloon.  

On April 10, 2002 we drove past the area and I spotted some foundations on a flat area just south of SH 140.  Could these have been the remains?  (GBS)

 

ARNOLD

            Location not determined.

 

ARTRU MINE

One of several mines operating in the Saxton Creek area of the Whitlock Mining District.  It was located somewhere along the Colorado Road.  Actual location not determined.

 

AUSTRALIAN GULCH

This old gold mining camp and granite quarry was located two miles south of the junction of SH 49/Ben Hur Road, just east of Mormon Bar.  In 1858, the Mariposa County jail was built of granite from this place.

           

AVE MARIA

This early 1850s gold-mining camp was located about a mile south of Mariposa at the confluence of Mariposa and Stockton creeks, near the Mariposa County Fairgrounds and Mormon Bar.  It was owned and operated by the Ave Maria Mining Company. 

 

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Mariposa County locations with names beginning:

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | PQ | R | S |TUV | W | XYZ

 

 

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First Posted:  December 10, 2001

Last Updated: March 19, 2005

 

 

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