Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a well-preserved example of the California Gold Mill, an ore processing system once employed ubiquitously throughout Western gold fields during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N970

Survey number: HAER CA-290

Building/structure dates: 1907-1908 Initial Construction

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000349

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1908 - 1980

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