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Holcomb Valley, the richest gold mining area in Southern California, is a quiet, lonely place these days. Hard to imagine 2,000 folks lived here in the early 1860’s. This sleepy mountain meadow was once the site of bustling, somewhat slapdash Belleville. The largest bunch of prospectors gathered right here, just east of Bill Holcomb’s original [...]
THINGS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT LOG CABINS Abe Lincoln was born in one. Okay, so maybe you already knew that, but did you also know that the first president to be born in a log cabin was Andrew Jackson? Pound for pound wood is stronger than steel which makes Log Cabins [...]
