Higgins Point, California

Higgins Point
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38°45′16″N 121°04′10″W / 38.7545°N 121.0694°W / 38.7545; -121.0694
LocationEl Dorado County, California

Higgins Point is a former mining camp in El Dorado County, California, United States. It was located one-half mile west of the center of Salmon Falls. The place was named for the first person to open a store there, an Australian named Higgins. Rich diggings of gold were discovered by Mormons at Higgins Point in 1849. Higgins Point was the first part of Salmon Falls to be laid out as a town, starting in 1853.

References

  1. ↑ Upton, Charles Elmer (1906). Pioneers of El Dorado. The Internet Archive. Placerville, Calif., C. E. Upton. pp. 94–95.
  2. 1 2 Gudde, Erwin Gustav. California gold camps : a geographical and historical dictionary of camps, towns, and localities where gold was found and mined, wayside stations and trading centers. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 156. OCLC 1028872197.
  3. ↑ Sioli, Paolo (1883). Historical Souvenir of El Dorado County. The Internet Archive. Oakland: Paolo Sioli. p. 202.
  4. ↑ Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1890). History of California. Vol. VI. The HathiTrust. San Francisco: The History Company. See footnote 4 on page 352.