Michigan Bar
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.500, -121.045
Why it was abandoned
⛏️ Gold rush
Detected automatically from the text: Michigan Bar was a former mining camp near a sandbar in the Cosumnes River in Sacramento County, California, United States which was founded by two gold miners from Michigan.
History
Michigan Bar was a former mining camp near a sandbar in the Cosumnes River in Sacramento County, California, United States which was founded by two gold miners from Michigan. The town site expanded out of the mining camp and by the 1850s contained a population of approximately 1500. By 1899, it had its own post office. Later hydraulic mining destroyed the original settlement, when the name came to designate a mining district.