1893 Map of Downieville

About this map

Quincy and the surrounding gold-bearing canyons of the northern Sierra Nevada dominate this late nineteenth-century survey. The landscape is defined by the heavy footprint of industrial mining, from the Plumas Eureka and Young America Mine to the cluster of hydraulic and hard-rock sites at Whiskey Diggings, Port Wine, and La Porte. These settlements were often dictated by the proximity of water and ore, linked by the Sierra Turnpike winding through the complex drainages of the Middle Fork Feather River and the various forks of the Yuba River.