The Friends of North Bloomfield and Malakoff Diggins and the Sierra ... North Bloomfield cemetery at Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park on Saturday. Chris Ward, author of “Cemeteries of the Western ...

In the mid 1800s Malakoff Diggins was the site of the world’s largest hydraulic mining operation. Powerful canons blasted the hillsides, reducing the towering layers of sedimentary rock, quartz and ...

Malakoff Diggins is one of California's lesser known state parks. The park was created in 1965 to preserve the controversial story of our country's largest hydraulic gold mine which devastated the ...

In 1851, a gold prospector sat in a saloon in Nevada City, roughly 50 miles west of Lake Tahoe. He slowly began trading the newly acquired cash in his pocket for drink after drink, and before ...

1. Highway 49. No road in California combines history and scenery the way this one does. Pretty stretches abound — Coloma south to Placerville is especially good, as is the portion from Angels ...

MALAKOFF DIGGINS STATE HISTORIC PARK — I teetered along a dirt path, working my way down to a waterfall hidden from view on the trail. I came to a rock shelf, worn smooth in wetter years by ...