Coloma in El Dorado County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)
The Diggins
Photographed By Joseph Alvarado, January 21, 2023
1. The Diggins Marker
Inscription.
The Diggins. . As miners exhausted the more easily-worked placer gold deposits in Sierra streams and gulches, they began to move into other likely areas. The miners tunnels horizontal drifts into hillsides, or using a method called “coyoting,” dug short vertical shafts. Miners used windlasses to raise buckets of ire from coyote holes, which were often unstable and sometimes collapsed on them. In larger, open diggings, the miners ran loaded wheelbarrows up wooden ramps to the surface Drift or tunnel miners brought their ore out on rails in small cars called skips, often with the help of mules or horses., Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
As miners exhausted the more easily-worked placer gold deposits in Sierra streams and gulches, they began to move into other likely areas. The miners tunnels horizontal drifts into hillsides, or using a method called “coyoting,” dug short vertical shafts. Miners used windlasses to raise buckets of ire from coyote holes, which were often unstable and sometimes collapsed on them. In larger, open diggings, the miners ran loaded wheelbarrows up wooden ramps to the surface Drift or tunnel miners brought their ore out on rails in small cars called skips, often with the help of mules or horses.
Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
Erected by Calfifornia Department of Parks & Recreation.
Location. 38° 48.036′ N, 120° 53.504′ W. Marker is in Coloma, California, in El Dorado County. Marker can be reached from Coloma Road (California Route 49) near Mt Murphy Road. The resin marker is mounted to a metal stand on the Gold Discovery Loop Trail. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Coloma CA 95613, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Credits. This page was last revised on January 30, 2023. It was originally submitted on January 30, 2023, by Joseph Alvarado of Livermore, California. This page has been viewed 98 times since then and 16 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on January 30, 2023, by Joseph Alvarado of Livermore, California.
