Kentucky Flat, California
Kentucky Flatis a former settlement inNevada County, California.Dating to 1850, it was first mined by settlers from theU.S. stateofKentucky.Several valuablequartzleads were discovered in the area, and thediggingswere worked with significant profit.[1]In that year, it was considered to be a settlement of some importance.[2]The Kentucky Flat Schoolhouse might be the "oldest continuously used one-room schoolhouse inCalifornia".[3]
References
[edit]- ^Sargent, Aaron Augustus (1856).Brown & Dallison's Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready Directory...: For the Year Commencing... Embracing a General Directory of Citizens, with an Historical Sketch of Nevada County(Public domain ed.). Printed at the Town Talk Office. pp. 13–.
- ^Bean, Edwin F (1867).Bean's History and Directory of Nevada County, California: Containing a Complete History of the County, with Sketches of the Various Towns and Mining Camps... Also, Full Statistics of Mining and All Other Industrial Resources(Public domain ed.). Printed at the Daily Gazette Book and Job Office. pp. 353–.
- ^"Kentucky Flat School reopens for 'the little ones'".The Union. July 22, 2011. Archived fromthe originalon 14 July 2014.Retrieved5 July2014.
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