Articles of interest in Jackson, California
Burson is an unincorporated community in Calaveras County, California. It lies at an elevation of 413 feet (126 m). Burson was founded along the San Joaquin and Sierra Nevada Railroad, and named for Daniel Smith Burson, a farmer and Civil War vetera…
Buena Vista (formerly, The Corners) is a census-designated place in Amador County, California. It lies at an elevation of 295 feet (90 m). It is located 4 miles (6.4 km) south-southeast of Ione, at (38°17′40″N120°54′48″W).
Aukum (also, Aukum Fork and Mount Aukum) is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California. It is located 1 mi (1.6 km) northeast of River Pines, 1.2 mi (1.8 km) south of Mount Aukum and 8.5 mi (13.7 km) northeast of Plymouth, at an ele…
River Pines is a census-designated place in Amador County, California. It is located 3 miles (4.8 km) north-northeast of Fiddletown, at an elevation of 1985 feet (605 m).
New Chicago (formerly, Chicago) is an unincorporated community in Amador County, California. It is located 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Plymouth, at an elevation of 948 feet (289 m).
Martell (formerly Oneida) is a census-designated place in Amador County, California, United States. It is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Jackson, at an elevation of 1486 feet (453 m).
The community, the center of a large placer mining section, was named for a Mexican who raised vegetables and melons for the miners. It was settled in the early 1850s with a large population of Mexicans, French, Chileans, and Italians. Now it is onl…
Irishtown (also, Irish Town) is a former settlement in Amador County, California. It was located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-southwest of Pine Grove, at an elevation of 1972 feet (601 m). The townsite lies within the boundaries of Pine Grove.
Glencoe was formerly called Mosquito Gulch. The business portion of the town was on the north side of Mosquito Gulch, but not one of the old buildings remains. The mines were first worked by Mexicans in the early 1850s. Quartz mining predominated bu…
Clinton (formerly, Sarahville, Sarahsville, and Lincoln) is an unincorporated community in Amador County, California. It is located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Pine Grove, at an elevation of 1972 feet (601 m). Clinton was the center of a placer mini…
Chinatown is a former settlement in Amador County, California. It is situated at an elevation of 344 feet (105 m).
The I.O.O.F. Hall in Mokelumne Hill, California, which is California Historical Landmark #256, is said to be California's first three-story building to be erected outside the coastal towns. The original building was erected in 1854 as a two-story bu…
Dry Creek is a 47.1-mile-long (75.8 km) stream in northern California which runs from the Sierra Nevada to the Mokelumne River west of Galt.
Toyon is an unincorporated community in Calaveras County, California, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east-northeast of Valley Springs on the Southern Pacific Railroad. It lies at an elevation of 988 feet (301 m).
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Amador County, California.
Lancha Plana ("flat boat" in Spanish; formerly, Sonora Bar) was a small settlement in Amador County, California, formed as a result of a flatboat ferry crossing across the Mokelumne River. It was founded by Mexican settlers in 1848. It lay on the no…
Lake Camanche Ranches is an unincorporated community in Calaveras County, California. It lies at an elevation of 322 feet (98 m).
Firebrick is an unincorporated community in Amador County, California. It is located 1.25 miles (2.0 km) south-southeast of Ione on the Amador Central Railroad, at an elevation of 377 feet (115 m).
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