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Taken: Circa 2012
Caption: Manchester Marker
Additional Description: The now completely obliterated town of Manchester (sometimes referred to as “The Lost City of the Santa Lucias”) was located just S of the Last Chance Mine, 22 m SW of Jolon and 3 m from the ocean in NWQ Sec.1 T24S R5E. Around 1887 it had a population estimated by different authorities as between 125 and 500 people, with a hotel, two general stores, barber shop, blacksmith shop, a one-room schoolhouse, mess halls, bunkhouses, a number of cabins, a small cemetery, a dance hall, and several saloons.... - Monterey County Place Names, by Donald Thomas Clark, 1991.
Submitted: September 13, 2013.
Database Locator Identification Number: p254371
File Size: 3.507 Megabytes

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