Blue Mountain City is a former settlement in Calaveras County, California,[1] along Licking Fork, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Mountain Ranch.[2] The town was built on a flat bench of land above the mining camp which perched on a steep canyon slope on the west side of Licking Fork, just over a mile downstream from the headwaters.[3] The town was first announced in January, 1863.[4] The Heckendorn Gold and Silver Mining Company was organized by July, with C. C. Bowman as its secretary.[5] A post office operated in Blue Mountain from 1863 to 1864.[2][6][7][8]
Blue Mountain is also the name of a mining district located 10 miles southeast of West Point, California that includes the Black Wonder, Gold King and Heckendorn mines.[9]
^"A Deserted Mining Camp". Stockton Daily Evening Record. September 11, 1895. p. 4. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
^ abDurham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 806. ISBN1-884995-14-4.
^The Editor (October 1992). "Blue Mountain City, Forgotten Boom Town"(PDF). Las Calaveras. XL (1): 5–9. Archived(PDF) from the original on February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024 – via Historical Calaveras.
^"A New Mining Town". The Stockton Independent. The California Digital Newspaper Collection. February 17, 1863. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
^"Mining Notices". Daily Alta California, Mining Supplement. California Digital Newspaper Collection. July 17, 1863. Page one, top of right-hand column. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
^Clark, William B. (1998). "Gold Districts of California". California Agencies. Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology: 31. Retrieved October 21, 2020.