Rail Road Flat EB Hall, CA

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Correspondent

==Trivia==
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