Owensville
Vanished settlement · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 37.401, -118.346
Why it was abandoned
⚒️ Mines & quarries
Detected automatically from the text: Owensville was started as a mining camp in 1863.
History
Owensville is a former settlement in Inyo County, California. It was located west of the future site of the modern-day town of Laws. Owensville was started as a mining camp in 1863. By 1871 it had been abandoned. The former settlement site is on U.S. Route 6 north of Bishop, California.