Dutch Flat, California
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Dutch Flat, California (Alt., 3,399 ft.) was settled in 1851 by German Miners Joseph Doranbach and his companions. It was a Dutch Flat man who pointed out the Donner Pass to the Rail Road, and Dutch Flat subscribed generously for the Central Pacific. Dutch Flat lost its importance in the fall of 1864 when the railroad stretched past Cisco; but the spectacular hydraulic operations for a decade, when one company worked 32 claims at once, kept millions of dollars in gold passing over the counters. From the Darlene Thorne Collection |
