Cherokee, California
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Cherokee is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California that was founded by Maidu Indians. Around 1818 Spanish found gold on Cherokee's south side by Table Mountain. In 1849 Cherokee Indians came from Oklahoma to start the Gold Rush. Welsh miners came in the 1850s, naming the town after the Cherokee and constructing many buildings in town. In 1880 President Rutherford B. Hayes, his wife Lucy, Civil War General William T. Sherman and General John Bidwell came to visit Cherokee's famous hydraulic gold mine. In the 1890s, the gold mines were sold off because of operation cost. At its boomtime, the town had a population in the thousands.
Possibly the site of the historic gold mine, on the 1994 Cherokee, California 7.5-minute quadrangle, a feature named "Cherokee Placer Mine" exists about .65 miles southwest of the above coordinates. USGS identifies Cherokee Flat and Drytown as historic variant names for the community.
Today, Cherokee now consists of a museum and a Cherokee cemetery, as well as a few houses.
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Butte County, California County Seat: Oroville |
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Concow • Durham • Magalia • Oroville East • Palermo • South Oroville • Thermalito |
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Bangor • Berry Creek • Butte Meadows • Camp Eighteen • Centerville • Cherokee • Cohasset • Dayton • DeSabla • East Biggs • Feather Falls • Forbestown • Forest Ranch • Inskip • Merrimac • Nord • Oregon City • Pulga • Richvale • Stirling City |
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