Historical Marker · No. 231
Elizabethtown
Quincy, Plumas County · California
Erected by Plumas Pioneer Parlor No. 219, N.D.G.W.; Quincy Parlor No. 131, N.S.G.W., 1927
Nothing of Elizabethtown stands, and the 1927 bronze marks the middle of where it was. Gold found in Tate's Ravine in the spring of 1852 filled the camp; by about 1860 Quincy, two miles south, had taken its trade, and the town emptied. In the late 1990s archaeologists dug near the monument and found the foundation of Blood and Shannon's fireproof store, and its artifacts. The bronze adds Elizabeth Stark's married name, Blakesley; the register says she was the camp's only unmarried woman.
What the plaque says
Dedicated to Pioneers of Plumas County to the Founders of Elizabethtown and Elizabeth Stark Blakesley for whom this town was named Sept. 1852 Erected by Plumas Pioneer Parlor No. 219 N. D. G. W. Quincy Parlor No. 131 N. S. G. W. Sept. 9, 1927 Emigrant Trail
Where it stands
39.96239, -120.95676 · Directions
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