Revenge Mill, Greenwood, California, ca. 1890
The black-and-white image shows two wooden buildings surrounded by trees in a rural setting.
Name/Title
Revenge Mill, Greenwood, California, ca. 1890Entry/Object ID
PH02011Description
The black-and-white image shows two wooden buildings surrounded by trees in a rural setting.Photograph Details
Subject
Mines and MiningSubject Person or Organization
Revenge Mine, William Harold DixonSubject Place
Unincorporated community
Greenwood [El Dorado County : California]Context
The Revenge Mill, built in 1884 in Greenwood, California. Destroyed by fire in 1897. The mill had five stamps and was powered by a Pelton water wheel. W. H. Dixon's residence also pictured. -- "Frederick Reginald Jonathan Dixon (FRJ) married when he was 22 and Rebecca 18 in Australia. FRJ came to California. Rebecca Katherine Chappel Jubber Dixon came later. FRJ said goodbye to the older boys and kissed the baby fully expecting the baby not to survive the ocean trip later. After FRJ was in California and Rebecca was waiting passage, the boys contracted fever and died. William Harold, the weakest of the 4 survived. On route, Rebecca's ship stopped off for 2 or 3 weeks at the Sandwich Isles (Hawaii) and William H was supposed to have been held on the laps of the native King and Queen of Hawaii. The ship on which Rebecca's letter to FRK was sent went down shipwrecked. When she arrived in San Francisco with William Harold, there was no one to meet her. After several weeks she got word to her husband, FRJ at Bath near Foresthill and joined him. After about a year FRJ came to Pilot Hill as there was a lot of mining at that time there. He went to work as superintendent for the Tombstone Mining Company which had purchased a likely hydraulic mining claim. When FRJ saw it on the top of the hill with no water in sight he was shocked. He went out and hired a gang of Chinese - much as he detested them, to dig a ditch up Coloma Canyon about, 2 1/2 miles. The Chinese foreman could sight the hill and set the men to working and when finished, had a perfectly graded ditch dropping one inch to one hundred feet (or thereabouts). This is the A pipeline to the California water ditch above the old Taylor mine. The work on the Revenge mine was begun and soon hit a $60,000 pocket on the claim. Later (about 1880) laws closed the hydraulic mining operations and a stamp mill was housed on the Greenwood property. This stamp mill is now at the museum at Coloma. Ancestry Story of the Dixon family from Alfred Dixon, narrated to Kristin Dixon around the 1960s." findagrave.comCategory
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