In 1851 a post office was established and by April 1852 there were 300 houses. By 1853 the flats and gulches swarmed with men, and there were 11 stores, 6 hotels, 3 bakeries, and 3 saloons. Hydraulic mining operations, begun in 1855, brought thousands of fortune seekers to form a town of 17 hotels, a library, a theater, and courts of quick justice.
Friday, December 23, 2022
Volcano, California
The town is named for its setting in a bowl-shaped valley which early miners thought was caused by a volcano. The early morning fog rising from the valley floor only reinforced that belief. The area was first known designated by Colonel Stevenson's men, who mined Soldiers Gulch in 1849.
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I saw the biggest rattlesnake I've ever seen on a road just outside of Volcano. It was about six feet long and easily 18" in circumference. And it wasn't a lump like it was something he was digesting, he was just that big.
ReplyDeleteThere is also the town of Volcano on the Big Island, Hawaii. For some reason I always wanted to get a tattoo up there but never did. I got one in Kona at Big Island Tattoo. The guy was a big sum bitch and a Hawaiian Witch so that was pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteVolcano Wv was an early oil boom town. Named for the gas flares burning at night. It's gone now, just a plaque along a back road is all that's left and some old oil equipment in a field
ReplyDeleteDaryl
I grew-up around those parts.
ReplyDeleteAbout ten miles away is Sutter Creek.
Check out their seasonal Daffodil Hill on the old McLaughlin Ranch.
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I also recommend reading The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County by Mark Twain.
I can assure you not a word of it is true...