During our overnight, camping field trip to Columbia State Park, CA with Bryce's one room school, we experienced what life might have been like in the gold rush days back in 1848.
Where else can a kid carry a shotgun through town and look normal?
Where else can a kid carry a shotgun through town and look normal?
The town of Columbia was only one of hundreds of settlements that popped up during the exciting years when Gold brought optimists from all over the world to seek their fortunes in California.
Columbia is located in the heart of the Mother Lode, a mile wide network of gold bearing quartz that extends 120 miles along the western edge of the Sierra Nevada, from Mariposa northward to Georgetown, Columbia yielded $87 million in gold at 1860's prices.
Columbia has never been a 'ghost town', it has never been deserted. Through State Legislature in 1945, Columbia State Historic Park was created to forever preserve it's history.
On Saturday's post, I shared with you, many of the tours we went on at Columbia.
One of the scheduled tours, I found most interesting was, of course, the one room school house.
