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North Bloomfield
1857
Malakoff Diggins, California
J.smith, Retouched by Mmxx · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The company town of the largest hydraulic mine in California, where water cannon washed a mountain into a canyon until the 1884 Sawyer decision, the country's first major environmental ruling, shut the industry down. The town and the man-made badlands are a state park.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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