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Old Posted Mar 13, 2018, 2:42 PM
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality View Post
"Francisco Lopez pulled wild onions near an oak tree on his Placerita Canyon Ranch and found gold nuggets caught in their roots."

lol, no doubt odinthor. I'd return from the trip with a trunk full of wild onions!


Here's an interesting bit of ephemera:

Walker's Camp was using the 1842 gold find as a marketing tool in the 1930s.

FRONT AND BACK ONLY

SCVHISTORY

and this.....(about the brochure)

"In a promotional brochure published by 1930s Placerita landowner Frank Walker:
"The first anniversary [in 1843] of this gold discovery was celebrated by the erection of a chapel on the site of the discovery
and the chanting of a solemn high mass by three priests, two from San Fernando and one from Los Angeles,
six altar boys, the entire Mission choir, consisting of twenty neophytes and eight musicians.
Many prominent families of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Buena Ventura and the surrounding country
and the Commissioners sent by Mexico to investigate the truth or falsity of the discovery, were present,
— a date in the history of our State was solemnized, which was to be forever after forgotten."


That's a surprise! I wonder what happened to the chapel?

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excerpt HERE
If it was actually next to the oak or in the immediate vicinity. it probably washed away since the oak is in the creek bed.
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