Explore California Gold Mine History!
Learn the history of the California Gold Rush as we take your 4th Grade throughg real gold mines.
Meet our Christian guides as they get ready to take you through a fun filled adventure through the history of the California gold rush, and help you develop a stronger relationship with our savior Jesus Christ.
- Learn about placer mining and how early miners would find gold in the nooks and cranny's of a river's bedrock.
- Walk carefully around dog holes and coyote holes where years ago a gold miner followed a quartz veign from the river into the mountain in search of more gold.
- Picture yourself a hard rock miner, as we walk through Gold Bug Mine and learn the basics of hard rock mining.
- See the fuses hanging ready to be lit, and the ore cart full of yesterday's hard labor.
- Explore the Priest Mine and discover the similarities it shares with Gold Bug Mine and note the differences that set it apart. See the huge air shaft looming overhead, and picture all the hard work that miners did many years ago.
- At the top of the hill we'll get a great view of the Vulture Claim, as we see just how far up the air shaft goes.
- Our guides will help you grow stronger in your Christian faith as we associate bible verses and stories with examples all around us.
