Horseshoe Bend was a Gold Rush settlement established in 1848 in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills. You’d have found 400 residents during its peak, with miners enduring 14-hour workdays in cramped conditions. The community thrived on placer and hydraulic mining until gold depletion caused its decline in the late 19th century. In 1967, the completion of Exchequer Dam submerged this multicultural boomtown beneath Lake McClure, transforming it into an underwater memorial to California’s mining heritage.
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9.1 Were Any Human Remains Found During the Flooding of Horseshoe Bend?…