Cache Creek or Cash Creek?

Today prospectors go to Cache Creek to pan for gold. But in the 1860's, the prospectors headed to the mining camp of Cash Creek. The cre...

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Gold and Winter Solstice

Gold's down this afternoon below $839. Winter solstice has come and gone, and that means our days are getting longer. What does that ha...

Researching Chaffee County in the 1870 Census

Until 1879, Chaffee County was the southern part of Lake County. The 1860 and 1870 census will show people who lived in what is now Chaffee ...