Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mono County, CA
Summary
Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies in the wake of the California gold rush. The building represents the standard form of the California stamp mill, and it houses the full array of equipment that exemplified stamp-milling practice at the turn of the twentieth century.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N971
Survey number: HAER CA-299
Building/structure dates: ca. 1898 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1899
Tags
mills
gold mining
science
bodie
standard
gold
mill
standard gold mill
bodie creek
northeast
mono
mono county
california
tom behrens
california state parks
justine christianson
todd crouteau
historic american engineering record
dana lockett
jet lowe
christopher h marston
kristen o connell
richard o connor
fredric l quivik
photo
ultra high resolution
high resolution
industrial history
mining industry
library of congress
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
California State Parks
Lockett, Dana, field team
Crouteau, Todd, field team
Marston, Christopher H, field team
Behrens, Tom, field team
O'Connor, Richard, project manager
California State Parks, sponsor
O'Connell, Kristen, transmitter
Quivik, Fredric L, historian
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Location
Bodie
,
38.21415, -119.00460
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html