Talk:Hamilton, California

Could someone with some knowledge of this town's history fix things up by e.g. adding dates ("Soon after, another tavern was erected" ?!? when was this "soon after"?). DiggyG (talk) 19:26, 18 June 2008 (UTC)


 * It's very difficult to find information about the town on the internet. Most of the locals have even forgotten it's existence.  The best hope for quality information, (verifiable,) would be the Butte County Historical Society in Oroville.  Photographs of the town may be obtainable there as well.  At the townsite, which is near the Thermalito Afterbay, and adjacent to the Hamilton Slough, there is a carved stone monument to the town.  It is located near the tombstones at the cemetery.  I suspect that much of this un-cited information in this article comes from that monument.  Other than visiting the historical society, perhaps information about the town could be obtained from history books about the gold rush.  The main reason for the ghosting of this town seems to be that it was agriculturally based, and all the farm workers deserted the town seeking riches in the gold fields further north in the County.  Hamilton lost it's bid for County Seat due to the population loss, and Bidwell's Bar gained it from the throngs of miners there.  Ironically, once the gold was played out at Bidwell's that town ghosted too, and lost the County Seat. Butte County may have some sort of world record for (perhaps) the only county in the US to have two former County Seat towns with current populations of 0? Tsarevna (talk) 01:24, 22 October 2008 (UTC)