Ghost Town
Guide to
the Ghost Towns, Mining Camps,
and Other
Formerly Inhabited Places in
Locations beginning with F
FARMER’S HOPE
…SEE Whitlock
FARMER’S
HOPE MINE
Located at Whitlock, in the Whitlock
Mining District. Actual
location not determined.
Buffalo Gulch and the Feliciana Mine
#1 (below) were located along this creek. The creek flows into the
This gold mine located along Feliciana
Creek was active from the 1850s-1930s. A
five-stamp mill operated here. Exact
location not determined.
FELICIANA MINE (#2)
One of several mines in
the Jerseydale Mining District. Actual location not determined.
Could this be the same as the
Feliciana Mine #1 above? (GBS)
…SEE
Clearing
House Mine.
In 1864, this eight-stamp gold-quartz mill
operated on the “Middle Fork” (main branch?) of the
(Unless
they were two separate mills. Possibly related to the Ferguson/Clearinghouse Mine. GBS)
In the 1850s-1860s a number of ferries were
active along the
On SH 41, 18 AIR miles due east of Mariposa.
I don’t know the status of, or story behind this tiny “Map
Dot.” (GBS)
FLORINITA 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.
The 1870s gold mining camp of Fly Away was
located about seven miles southeast of Coulterville. There were eight mining claims here along
with a five-stamp mill. It was probably (GBS speculation) located in
Flyaway Gulch, which is shown on the map east of SH 49, just north
of its crossing of the Merced River, at a point about 6.5 AIR miles southeast
of Coulterville. Actual site of the camp
is not determined.
The Flyaway Group
of mines is listed by the California Division of Mines & Geology as being in
the Coulterville
Mining District.
On the north side of Mariposa Creek, about
1.2 miles south of the “Old Highway”, 4.5 AIR miles southeast of Cathey’s Valley, and 3.4 AIR miles southwest of Bridgeport,
0.8 miles northeast of the Moore Hill Mine.
In the Cathey Mining District. It was in operation 1850s-1930s.
This 1850s placer and hard rock mining camp
operated by French miners, was located east of Mariposa Creek, 1.2 miles south
of the site of Whitlock, and about 1.5 miles north of the junction of the
…SEE also Bonnet
Garden.
Located
about 0.8 miles west of SH 49 at a point about 1.5 miles south of Coulterville. In 1949, this old mining settlement was still
marked by the foundations and schist rock-walled ruins of the boiler building,
as well as other mine buildings and cabins.
This is one of the
oldest hard rock mines in the county, and was located in the Bagby Mining District, 2.4 AIR miles southeast of Bagby, about a mile east of the Pine Tree Mine and 1.2 miles east
of SH 49. It closed
in 1948 after producing about $116,000 in gold.
Another reference in the mid 1950s, indicated the French
Mine as being located on the west side of, and adjoining, the Lucky Boy
Mine. At that time
there were still several mine and mill buildings remaining.
Both of these referenced locations may possibly be the same
mine. (GBS)
Actual location not determined.
This 1850s era placer
gold mining camp was located along the
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