|
|
||
|
I spent a couple years searching for a scenic town I could live in with some history I thought Jackson was it but in reality just because something looks beautiful does not mean it is a great place to live. Its something I learned and I learned the hard way but at the same time I learned alot about the history in the mother lode also known as Gold Country. You can read my epic adventures in the town by click the button above. More or less this is an exploration into Jackson but it also is one of the most haunted areas in this part of California. Jackson was named after Colonel Alden Jackson and was found in 1848 around the spring time. It was a camp and very well known minding spot. The travelers could stop here on the road to Sacramento or mines south of Jackson. The camp became an important supply and transportation center for nearby towns. By 1850 it grew to around 1,500 in population. The Kennedy mine began operations in 1860 and Placer Mining was no longer being done so the location was a hard rock mining area. It was the site of the the deepest Gold Mine in North America. Underneath Jackson are shafts, tunnels, caves, and miles of rolling hills/woods. Jackson was named for a local lawyer who was liked by the miners up at the Moore Mines on the edge of town. Jackson had a County seat in 1854 because of its size very early on its development. Jackson was a watering hole for cattle and one of the earliest hard rock mining areas. They called this place one the countries most successful towns in America. You have to understand that the town was full of gold, gambling, harlots, and history. It was a town full of shopkeepers, inns, fancy restaurants and structures all along main street. Nobody realizes it but their are secret tunnels under the town and I been underground to a point. You wont see alot of photos from Jackson I took a few but I never carried any cameras on me most of the time while hiking. I know I should have but at the time things were hard living on the streets, staying at hotels, sleeping in the woods etc. My story I hope will inspire others. The town was noted to be scandalous such as hangings and other wrong doings. Today I found out from even being homeless alot of bad things go down here I know trust me. The town today bustles till the sun goes down but during the day people visit the shops to check out Celtic Imports, Antiques, Purchase Indian Crafts and other vintage apparel. Its full of history would I live here again NO would I visit YES its a town full of good food...and there are alot of good people but also bad people. Like Once a pretty lady almost hit my son she was not paying attention and then swore out her window at us its sad real sad but alot of people in this town are into drugs, booze and do NOT like outsiders. I spent alot of lonely nights downtown its haunting.....but its also a dismal place. I feel as if the area is cursed you look back at the fire.....mining accident....tragic lives...giant cemeteries etc you start to realize Jackson has a sad sad past. The area was full of Northern Sierra Indians before the white man came. The town has a spring and many creeks I use to sit by them and reflect. I do miss Jackson to a point I honestly am very tired of Las Vegas you miss that wholesome feeling perhaps more then anything. Today the population is almost at 5,000 residents then the nearby towns it really is a very active location. People stop here on the way to Lake Tahoe I met alot of tourist! It was not always named Jackson it was called Bottileas at one time. Before it became Jackson Creek the spring was littered supposedly according to a poet with many bottles. Bottileas is a Spanish word meaning place of many bottles. Nobody ever saw signs of the Spanish here yet it is a Spanish word quite odd. The closes mine when the camp formed was a quartz one called Oneida but in Jackson they had the Kennedy and mining became the main source of operation for many years. Personally myself when you learn about mining its rather interesting in Las Vegas I seen quartz veins with gold all the time. The first brick building came around 1854 amazing really considering most structures were made of wood. The county seat was won here over Volcano and that town was bustling around the same time. A fire broke out in 1855 destroying part of the town and in 1962 a larger fire broke out almost destroying it all. From what I heard alot of people died in these fires structures had to be rebuilt right on the same foundations. It all started as a stage coach and trading post. Then the post office came....mines....cattle grazing areas etc etc by the late 1800s Jackson had 3 Churches, 3 newspapers, 4 hotels, 5 Boarding Houses, 2 Candy Factories, Cigar Factories, Macaroni Factories, 2 Dentist, and 8 Physicians. In 1905 it was incorporated into a City. The mines really were very slow operations deep digging did not began till the 1880s for many years the mines were shut down and reopened. Jackson has just alot of rich history. I went for a woods hike found old tracks in the middle of nowhere when the train use to come through. I found a hidden dam to an area that use to be flooded with foundations perhaps of one of the factories. I found The Massa Brothers Tunnel that went under Jackson....and I found some cobble stone walls. Its a great place to explore and I spent a few months on foot toking...smoking....hiking with Sneezer and other friends around town just exploring. Nothing fancy! Its the type of town where the little boy fishes by a wall....and at night people hide from the night.....and the bars are full of drunk locals and people are bored because they live there so they do not understand the importance of all its history. I spent alot of time at my favorite location called The National Hotel that is just an example of the areas history. The area is rumored to be haunted I took a photo of one of the most haunted houses in Jackson its also one of the oldest. I did seen a ghost at the homeless shelter one night and a few others that I lived with for a few weeks shared with me their ghost stories as well about a old lady with white hair. She was haunting the shelter which was also a historic home I lived in for three weeks very haunted so we know Jackson has some key haunted locations. It also is listed on the national register of historical places. © By Rick-AngelOfThyNight http://ci.jackson.ca.us/PDF/visitors/Tour.PDF
Landmarks Argonaut
and Kennedy Mines,
California
Historical Landmark #786
|
||
|
|
||
|
society, Mib, conspiracy, time travel, specters, Armageddon, prophets, prophecy, paranormal, ghosts, aliens, Buffalo, haunted houses, cryptozoology, dimensions, apocalypse, Atlantis, curses, monsters, wildman, yeti, cemetery, stigmata, vampyre, vampires, angels, bizarre, metaphysics, Atlanta, Louisiana, Myrtle Beach, planet x, mothman, jersey devil, apparitions, werewolf, werewolves, devils, vortexes, Bermuda triangle, lycanthropes, mystery, ancient, spirits, cydona, mythology, Charlotte, Atlanta, Mobile, possession, possess, mailing list, parapsychology, poltergeist, evp, investigation, crop circles, Roswell, abduction, project blue book, living dinosaurs, religious miracles, ny, sightings, north Carolina, south, brown mountain, cleansing, shadowmen, beast, ogopogo, death, portals, spontaneous human combustion, zombies, ouija boards, nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, art bell, George Nooray, Magick, Paganism, Wicca, Tennessee, Halloween, bigfoot, Sasquatch, ufo, grays, ufos, vortexes, alien, hybrids, Haunting's, demons, demonology, occult, mystics, lochness, chupacabras, equipment, Thermal, EMF, Cassadaga, energy, asteroid, civil war, spooky, scary, adventure, ectoplasm, orbs, graveyards, demons, spirits, cults, buffalo, new York, ghost society, logo wear, equipment, books, videos, music, certification, Castles, Forts, fortean, phenomena, nonprofit, business, investigations, SPH, EMF, ghosthunting, organization, conventions, hollow earth, paranormal & ghost Society, detector, posters, mailboxes, donate, Buffalo, xfiles, Ectoplasm, magik, spells, wicca, paganism, holy, cross, NWO, Patriot, 911, September 11th, tours, cryptid, ghostlights, dinosaurs, Florida, Fl, Daytona Beach, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Debary, Miami, Tampa bay, Sarasota, Pensacola, NASA, Cape Canaveral, Space Coast, space shuttle, gulf breeze, key west, Sanford, port orange, Ormond beach, New Smyrna, Orlando, Disney world, Tallahassee, Stetson university, panama city, Alabama, Georgia, Savannah, New Orleans, Cocoa Beach, Ocala, plantations, Fort Lauderdale, Melbourne, Naples, Lake Wales, grim reaper, everglades, Seminoles, big cats, Fort Myers, St. Petersburg, Lakeland, Gainesville, West Palm Beach, bike week, spring break, Deland, Deltona, Orange City, weird, strange, bizarre, mysterious, rituals, skunk ape, adventure, ships, ghost pirates, ball lightning, x-files, conspiracies, Las Vegas, California, Nevada, wild west, Mojave, Navajo, timucuans, Seneca's, Iroquois, Cult, Occult, Indians, Historical, Bands, Gothic, New Age, Spiritualism, Parapsychology, CA, California, youtube, media, hard rock, heavy metal, Portal, 666, demons, fallen angels, gods, CA, Reno, Las Vegas, Sacramento, San Francisco, Roseville, Woodland, Davis, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Jose, Lodi, Napa, Vallejo, San Andreas, Modesto, Tahoe, Santa Rosa, Redding, Yuba City, San Diego, Eureka, Chico, Fresno, Salinas, Stockton, Oxnard, Auburn, Fairfield, Vacaville, NV, Carson City, Nevada, Eldorado, Yosemite, Merced, Hollywood, Eugene, Oregon, Salem, Portland, Bend, Boise, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Washington, AZ, Phoenix, Native American Folklore, Beatty, NV, Sin City, Mines, Bakersfield, Fresno, Jackson, San Andreas, Sutter Creek, Folsom Lake, Citrus Heights, Redding, Sierra Nevada's, Foothills, Spaniards, Savannah, Kinzua, Hoover Dam, Henderson, 420, Marijuana, weed, pot, joint, science, caves, spelunking, stunts, extreme, desert, woods, swamps, caving, tunnels, catacombs, UE, Urban exploration, abandonment's, video, movies, production, new age, ambient, techno, Satanism, convention, conferences, thermal detector, digital recorder, d5, deggi5, abandoned, trespass, trespassing, death, druid, curse, cursed, Chumash,Hupa ,Mission, Nez Pace, Pajute, Pomo, Salish, Ute, Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Pueblo, Hopi, Anasazi, Apache, sonora, placerville, folsom lake, sin city |
|
