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Title: Benton Mills and Dam. Mariposa County
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: 1874
Publication Information: San Francisco : C.E. Watkins
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2008-2307.
In: Photographic views of one hundred and twelve of the principal and most picturesque places of California, vol. 3, pg. 77.
View of the Benton Mills and Dam on the Merced River in Mariposa County. Mill buildings at bottom right, water spills over rock wall of dam, hills beyond. Sign on building says Benton Mills.
Also have negative: no. 29,072 (4x5 in. color transparency).
Located on Merced River at Ridley's Ferry between Bear Valley and Coulterville. Built by John C. Fremont as part of his Las Mariposas ranch holdings, purchased from Juan B. Alvarado in 1847. Mill was completed in 1859, destroyed in 1862.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Identifier: (C)001391258CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-4588
Language: English
Subject: Frémont, John Charles,, 1813-1890--Homes & haunts
Rivers--California--Mariposa County
Dams--California--Mariposa County
Quartz mining--California--Mariposa County
Mariposa County (Calif.)--Photographs
Merced River (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Mariposa County
Mariposa County (Calif.)
Merced River (Calif.)

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