Dog Town
California State Historic Landmark 792
05/23/97
#792 Dog Town
1857
Site of the first major gold rush to California's eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, Dog Town derived its name from a popular miners' term for camps with huts or hovels. Ruins, lying close to the cliff bordering Dog Town Creek, are all that remain of the makeshift dwellings which here formed part of the "diggins."
05/23/97
U.S. Hwy 395 (PM 69.5), 7 mi S of Bridgeport.
Return to other landmarks in Mono county.
Please note: I have no connection to any organizations mentioned on this site.
Site contents copyright 1996-2000 by Donald Laird - all rights reserved
Send comments to:
Donald Laird