View source for Rail Road Flat EB Hall, CA

==Correspondent==

* [[Edward Leon Ponge]] (1838-1926)

==Trivia==<br />A historic mining town, named after primitive mule-drawn ore cars used there, no actual railroad.  Established in 1849, and a site of an Indian council, as well as the center of rich placer and quartz mining.  The town was decimated by black fever in 1880.

==Sources==

* Dec 1879 List of Gatherings in the U.S. and Canada

* [https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/67874970/person/30187284836/facts?_phsrc=rTu4&_phstart=successSource Ancestry.com]

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Road_Flat,_California Wiki for Rail Road Flat]