Hey theChad...
Just surfing the site and found your post....I realize it is from a long time ago...
I used to live in the "high Desert" below Big Bear and Holcomb Valley....I'm very familiar with the area and its history....
Way back in the valley, you'll find a reasonably large tailing pile and the entrance to a tunnel going into the west side of the valley wall... just north of that mine..on the right in a group of pine trees are some old rock foundations of miners cabins from long ago... I found a 1 1/4 ounce nugget in one of those foundations....using a detector... I believe I was using a Whites detector...this was in around 1986 or 87....somewhere about that time period..... That is a very interesting place to visit and prospect...
If you know where Baldwin Lake?
There is a once-upon-a-time rich operating gold mine there operated by lucky Baldwin and rather large community sprang up to operate 2 or 3 gold mines near there.... The city was called Baldwin City.... and in 1904 came 2 votes short of becoming the county seat for all of San Bernardino county.... In 1906..it was wiped out by a Cholera epidemic.... Below the mine on the flat above the Lake... you'll see the only thing left of the city..the community well site...to the south of that well and up in the brush you'll find the many, many, many, many graves of the towns people who died in the outbreak... I have never detected this place..but always thought it might hold promise.....a friend of mine did find a 10 dollar gold piece walking around ...of course going back to his car... in Holcomb Valley...
Good luck,
Klondike Ike
Hey everyone...
I made a mistake... The Baldwin City grave sites are on the NORTH side of the city area.... hidden in the brush...almost all of them are simply piles of stones on top of the ground....most are unmarked... kind of like you'll see in most Hollywood Western Movies...concerning a grave episode part in a movie.....
many of the grave sites are very small ..obvious for children..... I can't remember how many... but there maybe upwards of a couple hundred scattered all around the hillside... mostly out of view and covered up by lots of brush...
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If you go there to detect the area... you may also want to hit the tailing piles of the gold mines above the old city site...to the west... you can't miss them...check for gold in the rocks of the tailing piles....Lucky Baldwin recovered about $10 million in about 20 years operation...near the turn of the 19th century.....
Good luck to everyone who may visit Baldwin City....
Kondike Ike
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