Bestville, California

Bestville is a populated place in on the North Fork Salmon River in Siskiyou County, California, just down stream from Sawyers Bar.^[1]

History

Bestville, now in Siskiyou County was a California Gold Rush mining camp^[2], first in Trinity County (one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood). Then in the now defunct Klamath County from from 1851 to 1874. It was then within that part of Klamath County annexed to Siskiyou County.

References

1. ^ GNIS Feature Detail Report for: Bestville
2. ^ Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California, Vol. VI, 1848-1859, The History company, San Francisco, 1888, p.370