Ghost Town USA’s

Guide to the Ghost Towns, Mining Camps,

and Other Formerly Inhabited Places in

MARIPOSA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.

 

Locations beginning with P, Q

 

 

PACIFIC MINE

This hard rock gold mine was located in Hells Hollow, 2.8 miles south of Bagby and 2.9 miles north of Bear Valley.  It was active in the 1930s.

 

PADDY McCANN MINE

            This gold mine was an extension of the Diltz Mine, which was in the Whitlock Mining District .

 

PEA RIDGE SCHOOL

This one-room school was located on Ben Hur Road, 9.4 miles south of its junction with SH 49, at a point just east of Mormon Bar.  It operated between 1875-1947.

 

PENDOLA GARDEN MINE

A hard rock gold mine that was located directly on the Mother Lode vein system.  Location not determined, but it possibly was at or near the Pendola Gardens area.

 

PENDOLA GARDENS

0.8 miles north of the junction of the “Old Toll Road”/Pendola Gardens Road, 3.5 miles west of Mt. Bullion, 3.5miles south of Bear Valley.

           

PEÑON BLANCO

AKA – Pino Blanco, Pinon Blanco

This pioneering gold camp was located in the Coulterville Mining District, a couple miles northwest of Coulterville and west of the junction of SH 49/ Peñon Blanco Road.  This mining camp was originally founded by Mexican miners, and dates to the period between 1849 and the 1860s.  Actual location not determined.

Some of the mines located here included:     
·        ORO RICO MINE …SEE Peñon Blanco Mine
·        PEÑON BLANCO MINE …SEE below

 

PEÑON BLANCO MINE

         AKA – Oro Rico Mine

Located at Peñon Blanco (SEE above) in the Coulterville Mining District, this hard rock gold mine operated between the 1860s and 1912.  It also had a 20-stamp mill on site.  It was also reported to be the 1st patented mining claim in the State of California, and is also known as the Oro Rico Mine.

            Actual location not determined.

 

PERMIT MINE

This hard rock gold mine was located directly on the East Belt vein system in the Sherlock-Whitlock area.  It was on Whitlock Creek, about four miles north of Mariposa, south of the Nutmeg Mine and a mile west of the Diltz-Oro Grande Mine, and adjoining the Milburn Mine on the north.  The mill was located 3.2 mile west of the junction of Sherlock/Whitlock roads, which is 7.9 miles north of the junction of Whitlock Road and SH 49 north of Mariposa.

 

PHILLIPS SPEECH GULCH  

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.           

 

PIEDRA de GOZA MINE
         AKA – Roma Mine (#1)

First worked originally by Spanish-Californians, this 1850s-1860s era gold mine was later known as the Roma Mine.  It was located at Bear Creek #1, 1.5 miles southeast of Briceburg.

 

PINE TREE & JOSEPHINE MINE                PHOTO#1!             PHOTO#2!

This famous mine was located in the Bagby Mining District in Hell’s Hollow (the canyon between Bear Valley and the Merced River) just west of SH 49 at a big switchback two miles north of Bear Valley.  The Pine Tree Mine was discovered in 1849, and began production in 1850.  It consolidated with the Josephine Mine in 1859. 

This mining complex was a centerpiece in John FREMONT’s mining empire and was the site of the

famed claim jumping siege and counter siege (not repeated here).  The workings consist of adits (horizontal

tunnels) and winzes (small “shafts” joining the various adits).  Some of the adits are 1200’ long.  It was very

active during the late 1940s, and up to WW II.  Combined production is estimated to have been between

$2.7 and $4.0 million in gold through 1942.

On April 10, 2002 there were no remains of the mine except tailing piles and disturbed soil.  No structures or ruins remained.

 

PINE TREE MINE

            …SEE Pine Tree & Josephine Mine

 

PINEY CREEK

Now under Lake McClure, this early 1850s placer gold mining camp was located on Piney Creek, just above its confluence with the Merced River in the northwest point of Horseshoe Bend.         

 

PINO BLANCO

            ...SEE Peñon Blanco   

 
PINON BLANCO

            ...SEE Peñon Blanco   

 

PIONEER MINE

This hard rock gold mine was located directly on the East Belt vein system in the Sherlock-Whitlock area.  Actual location not determined.

 

PLEASANT VALLEY

An 1850s gold mining camp located along the Merced River six miles north of Exchequer.  This camp had a post office from Nov 17, 1855 - Sep 16, 1856.  It has been covered by Lake McClure.

 

PLUMBAR

A name mentioned by COOK in passing with other interesting names in the county.  No location is listed.

 

POCAHONTAS MINE

This copper mine was discovered by Jack HARLISS and Steve WILCOX.  In 1981, a couple of shacks remained. 

Information edited from a December 10, 2000 posting to the Mariposa List by Don Rose.

 

This copper mine was located in the West Westfall Copper Mines area, 1.4 AIR miles east-southeast of the Great Northern Mine, 1.7 AIR miles northwest of the junction of White Rock/West Westfall roads, and 6.3 AIR miles south-southeast of Cathey’s Valley.

(These two are probably the same location…GBS)

 

POISON SPRINGS

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.           

 

POKERVILLE

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.           

 

POOLE MINE

Originally worked in 1872, closing about 1909.  Had an eight-stamp mill. Location not determined.

 

POTOSI

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.           

           

POTOSI MINE

Located in the Coulterville Mining District, about a mile west of Coulterville.  Consolidated into the Malvina Group.  It operated from 1852-1942, and produced over $1,000,000 in gold.  Possibly the same location as Potosi (above). (GBS)

 

POVERTY FLAT

AKAUpper Agua Fria

         ...SEE individual listing for Agua Fria

 

PRESCOTT VEIN

         …SEE Badger Mine

…SEE Hornitos for a listing of the mines in that area.

 

PRESTON RANCH

Located just off Ben Hur Road, 4.4 miles south of Ben Hur, three miles north of the Green Mountain School which is at the junction of Ben Hur/Preston/Green Mountain roads,

 

PRESTONS

            Possibly the same location Preston Ranch?

 

PRINCETON

            ...SEE Mount Bullion

 

PRINCETON MINE

The Princeton Mine was discovered in 1852, and produced over $4.4 million in gold.  Its main period of activity ended in 1915, but it was operated intermittently up until about 1942.  In 1860 a 24-stamp mill was built at the mine.  For most of its life it was the largest gold producer in the county.  Its main shaft is 1660 feet long and inclined at a 45-60º angle.  Its vertical depth is over 1350’.  It is located in the Mount Bullion Mining District, about a quarter mile south of Mount Bullion and south of SH 49.

 

PYRAMID MINE

A $200,000 gold mine located in Hunter Valley.  The exact location not determined.

…SEE Hunter Valley for a listing of mines in that area.

 

                       

-Q-

 

QUAIL MINE

This gold mine was located at Indian Gulch (#2) about seven miles southeast of Coulterville, off the Merced River.  This mine produced some $400,000 in gold between 1873-1954.  It was in the Kinsley Mining District for an extensive list of mines and smaller mining districts in the entire area.

 

QUARTZ MOUNTAIN MINE

In 1885 this Hornitos Mining District gold mine was active, but its location is not determined. 

 

QUARTZBURG(H)

This 1848-early 1850s era mining camp was located where Burns Creek crosses the Hornitos-Bear Valley Road (CR-J16), about three miles northeast of Hornitos.  In 1949, the remains included the adobe-walled/brick-fronted THORNE Store built in 1852.  When the road was relocated, the remains of the town were bulldozed.  Only the Quartzburg Cemetery remains.

 

QUARTZBURG SCHOOL

This old one-room school was located on CR-J16 1.4 miles northeast of the junction of that road/Jenny Lind Road, about a half mile from Quartzburg.  It was established in 1870, and closed in the early 1950s.

 

QUEEN LOUIS MINE

            Location not determined.

 

QUEEN SAXON MINE

         ...SEE Schroeder Mine.

…also SEE the Whitlock Mining District for a list of the mines in that mining district.

 

QUEEN SPECIMEN MINE

            Located in the Bagby Mining District.  Actual location not determined.

 

QUICK RANCH

         …SEE Ben Hur

 

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