Jesus Maria

The town is named for a man who grew vegetables, and nobody wrote down which man. He raised melons and produce for the miners here in the early 1850s, in a placer district whose people were Mexican, French, Chilean and Italian. Nothing is left of the town. A visit in 2006 found a stream, one abandoned wooden building, and no marker of any kind, and the state has never placed one. The name is the only thing that survived him.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Columbia State Historic Park — 21 mi
  The Gem of the Southern Mines, still open for business on a car-free Gold Rush main street.

More markers nearby

• Calaveras County Courthouse and Leger Hotel — 3.3 mi
• Congregational Church — 3.4 mi
• Mokelumne Hill — 3.4 mi
• I.O.O.F. Hall, Mokelumne Hill — 3.4 mi