Historical Marker · No. 266
Jenny Lind
Jenny Lind, Calaveras County · California
Erected by Joaquin Parlor No. 5, Stockton, Native Daughters of the Golden West, 1987
The same ground was worked three times over. Miners took the hillside placers above the Calaveras River from 1849, and dredges came later and turned the riverbed itself inside out. In between, in 1864, the town held about four hundred people and half of them were Chinese. The bronze standing here was put up in 1987 by a Stockton parlor of the Native Daughters on its own hundredth anniversary, and gives the place one sentence about mining, cattle and farming.
What the plaque says
JENNY LIND SETTLED IN THE 1840'S AS A FLOURISHING GOLD MINING, CATTLE RANCHING AND FARMING COMMUNITY. DEDICATED ON THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF JOAQUIN PARLOR NO. 5, STOCKTON, NATIVE DAUGHTERS OF THE GOLDEN WEST. APRIL 4, 1987
Where it stands
38.09463, -120.87018 · Directions
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