Ghost Town USA’s
Guide to
the Ghost Towns, Mining Camps,
and Other
Formerly Inhabited Places in
MARIPOSA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
Locations beginning with H
HARBOR & KING SAWMILL
#1
…SEE King
& Harbor Sawmill #1
HARBOR & KING SAWMILL
#2
…SEE King
& Harbor Sawmill #2
HARDISON’S CAMP
This 1850s era gold mining camp was located
along Mariposa Creek, near Mariposa.
Actual location not determined.
HARRIS’ SAWMILL
In 1908 Stony HARRIS operated a sawmill
at Darrah Station, which was located at the junction of
the Jerseydale and Triangle roads, northeast of
Mariposa.
HARVEY’S BAR
This 1849-early 1850s placer mining camp
was located on the horseshoe bend of the Merced River. Now under Lake
McClure.
HASLOE MINE
AKA – Coward Mine
Was located in Gentry Gulch, a mile east of the Cherokee Mine,
5.5 miles southeast of Greeley Hill and about eight miles east of Coulterville. It consolidated with several smaller mines,
and operated from 1854-1956, producing about $4.0 million in gold. It was in the Greeley
Hill Mining District, which is part of the larger Kinsley
Mining District.
HAYDEN DIVISION
…SEE
Great
Johnson Vein.
HAYDENSVILLE
...SEE Bear
Valley
HAYWARD
On Hayward Road, 0.2 miles east of the
junction of SH 132/Hayward Road, 1.2 AIR miles northeast of the intersection of
Mariposa/ Tuolumne/Stanislaus and Merced counties, in the northwest tip of the
county west of Lake McClure.
HELL(S) HOLLOW
The steep gulch SH 49 drops through as it
runs north towards the Merced River. The summit is 1.4 miles north of Bear Valley. Placer mining took place along the gulch’s
stream bottom in the 1850-1860s era. FREMONT built a small railroad from the
Pine Tree & Josephine Mine to his mills at Benton Mills, along the Merced River. The
railroad and its grade are long gone, but probably followed the route SH 49 now
follows.
HEMPSTED
According to GUDDE
in CGC,
this place was “on the road to Mariposa.” Actual location not determined.
HENRY DREDGE
…SEE
Bear
Creek #2
HERBERT MINE
In 1885, a Mr.
ADAMS
and CARTER
owned this gold mine at an undetermined location.
One
of a dozen or so gold mines located at Hite’s Cove. Actual location not determined.
…SEE
Hites Cove (below) for a listing of the mines in that area.
Located
at Hites Cove, some $3.0 million was produced by this gold mine between 1862
and the early 1900s. Actual location not
determined.
…SEE
Hites Cove (below) for a listing of the mines
in that area.
Hites
Cove is located on the south-facing slope above the north side of the South
Fork of the Merced River, about 3.5 AIR miles southwest of El Portal. The rich quartz-gold mines were discovered in
1861 by John R. HITE, and by 1864 the
camp had a population of about 100 and a ten-stamp mill in operation. A decade later a 20-stamp mill was in
operation.
Because
of its isolated location, drinking and gambling were popular diversions. All the buildings in the small camp burned in
1924. HIKING TRAIL ACCESS ONLY
For
details on the below listed mines, follow the links to the appropriate
alphabetic listing pages.
·
BROWN BEAR MINE
·
BUNKER HILL MINE
·
CONFIDENCE MINE
·
EMMA MINE
·
EUREKA MINE (#2)
·
GEORGIA POINT MINE
·
HITE
MINE …SEE above
·
HITE
CENTRAL MINE …SEE above
·
KADERITAS MINE
·
MEXICAN MINE (#2)
·
SQUIRREL
MINE …SEE
Bunker Hill Mine
·
WILLIAMS MINE
HITE’S
SAWMILL
In
1875, John HITE owned and operated a sawmill
at Snyder Gulch.
HO
BETTIE MINE
The location of this c1883 gold mine
is not determined.
Listed
in CHAMBERLAIN’s The Call of Gold as one of the
unique place names in the Coulterville-Yosemite Road region. No location is given. I assume it would be somewhere between
Coulterville and Yosemite Valley.
HORNITOS (CHL #333) elevation 850’
This
pioneering mining camp was established in 1848 by Mexican miners, and was
quickly over-run by “less desirable elements” evicted from the booming mining
town of Quartzburg about two miles away.
Hornitos quickly developed a reputation as a rough town. However, it eventually settled down and became
a respectable community, eclipsing Quartzburg.
It is located on CR-J16, 11 miles west of Bear Valley, and about 15 AIR
miles west-northwest of Mariposa. PHOTOs!
HORNITOS
MINING DISTRICT
…SEE Hornitos
for detailed information and a list of the mines.
This
old gold mine was located on the Jordan Creek Road, 0.6 miles west of the
turnoff to Buck Meadows, about five miles east of Greeley Hill, in the Greeley Hill Mining District, which
is part of the larger Kinsley Mining District. It operated off and on up until the 1960s.
A
Humbug Creek is located about five AIR miles southeast of Mariposa. It is mentioned as a place name by COOK,
but no other details are given. Actual
location not determined.
HUMPHREY
& GEIGER’S SAWMILL
One
of the first sawmills in the county was built in
1852 by HUMPHREY & GEIGER. The
location is not determined.
HUMPHREY
& MOCK’S SAWMILL
In
1855, Mr. HUMPHREY & Moses MOCK built this sawmill on Bear Creek. Exact location not determined.
Location not determined
…SEE
Way Stations
for a listing of the various way stations in Mariposa County.
This
mining area is located south of Horseshoe Bend, between the two “legs” of Lake
McClure west of Bear Valley. It was
named after William W. HUNTER. There was placer mining activity here in the
1850s and hard rock mining beginning in the 1860s. In 1949-1950, the gold mines in Hunter Valley
were the largest gold producers in the county.
The name of the valley is variously spelled HUNTER, HUNTERS
or HUNTER’S, depending on source.
I am presenting it in this work in the
singular. (GBS)
For
details on the below listed mines, follow the links to the appropriate
alphabetic listing pages.
·
BERETTI MINE
·
BLUE CLOUD MINE
·
CARSON MINE (#1)
·
CARSON MINE (#2)
·
COTTON CREEK MINE
·
IRON DUKE MINE
·
La VICTOIRE MINE
·
La
VICTORIA MINE … SEE La Victoire Mine
·
MORNING STAR MINE
·
MOUNTAINEER MINE
·
OAKES & REESE MINE
·
ORANGE BLOSSOM MINE
·
PYRAMID MINE
·
SCHOOLHOUSE MINE
·
YELLOWSTONE MINE (#1)
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