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Tropico Gold Mine & Ghost Town

Ezra Hamilton owned a pottery Los Angeles California. He made bricks and pipe from the fire clay mined from Tropico Hill (Hamilton Hill at the time) near Willow Springs. In 1894 he panned gold from the clay and immediately went to the mine and located the lode.

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