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The Murphys haunted hotel

Eleanor started her new job as a chambermaid at the hotel some time back in the early 1860s, when the place was still called the Sperry and Perry...
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John Savage, an Indian war and Yosemite Valley

Because of the shortage of available women in California many of the early settlers chose to marry Indians. A lot of these men were trappers and...
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Columbia, the gem of the Southern mines

Douglas Flat, about a mile south of Murphys and located on the limestone belt, was another rich mining site. Along the Sanislaus River five miles...
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The dreams of Angels Camp and the Murphys water supply

Ten miles southeast of San Andreas and three or four miles north of Carson Hill sat Angels Camp, named for Henry and George Angel who had...
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