1948 Map of Mooreville Ridge

About this map

Brandy City and the surrounding mining districts of the Sierra Nevada foothills are captured here in the late 1940s, a landscape defined by the deep canyons of the Middle Fork Feather River and the North Fork Yuba River. The area is characterized by scattered family-named outposts and industrial relics, from Graves Cabin in the north to the Monte de Oro Mine in the south. The mapping shows a rugged network of ridges like Mooreville Ridge and Watson Ridge, punctuated by fire-monitoring points such as the Swain Hill Lookout.