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Columbia Diggins: Relive the Gold Rush May 28-31
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Curious what the days of the Gold Rush were really like? Step back in time to 1852 at Columbia Diggins. The recreated ‘tent town’ is home to prospectors, merchants, craftsmen, and families who recreate the essence of this time in the ‘dry diggin's’ of Columbia.
Visit with the miners, artisans, and entertainers. Many folks arrive at the camp to glean the wealth of the successful, and ‘mine the miners’ pockets.” See how they live and work; make meals, create clothing, and tend gardens and livestock. Taste the bread freshly baked out of the recreated stone and brick oven. Visit the saloon for a cold sarsaparilla.
Buy a share of a Mine and dine on the food of the day. Witness a live show, featuring music, dancing, and toe-tappin' tunes. Submerse yourself in the feeling of the camp and observe how children played, folks made crafts, and entertained with music and gambling.
Extensive research goes into recreating authentic characters, places, and events that occurred the year that families began arriving at the camp. Determined to stake their claim in the ‘dry diggin’s’, finding sustainable water proved one of their many obstacles.
Open 10-5 daily. Located at Columbia State Historic Park, off Hwy 49, 4 miles north of Sonora in Tuolumne County.
Admission is $3 adults, $1 children over 5. Free parking.
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