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Red Dog (also known as: Brooklyn or Brooklin) was a California gold rush mining town located in the Gold Country in south-central Nevada County, California, United States, northeast of Chicago Park. Red Dog Hill, a mine and campsite, was founded by three men all under the age of 22, and was named by their youngest, a 15-year-old prospector. As mining operations grew, the campsite became a settlement, and then a town with a population of 2,000 residents,〔 before it was eventually abandoned. Still considered important today, Red Dog Townsite is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Red Dog has been noted for its unusual place name. ==History== While prospecting in 1850, three young men, all aged 21 or younger, discovered gold on a hill on the east side of Greenhorn ridge. The two from Arkansas, Henry Jacob Stehr and the Irishman Joseph Chew (or Chow),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RED DOG CEMETERY, Nevada County, CA )〕 named the ravine after their home state of Arkansas. Charles ("Charlie") Wilson of Illinois, the youngest of the three at age 15, named the hill "Red Dog" after a zinc mine. Mining campsites began to form in Red Dog as well as other places nearby such as Chalk Bluff ( away), Hunt's Hill, Little York and You Bet ( away). Their existence was tied to ongoing mining operations. Red Dog Mining Company's Mine was situated at an elevation of above sea level and expanded over . It used water powered through Old Chalk Bluff ditch from the head of Deer Creek. Red Dog evolved from a campsite into a settlement by 1851. During the next four years, it became an active and progressive mining town, replete with a department store, hotel, restaurant, professional buildings, lodges, and homes.〔 Eventually, the miners of Chalk Bluff moved to Red Dog, and the town decided to rename itself "Brooklyn" (sometimes spelled "Brooklin"). When a post office was established in 1855, it was the post office's decision to stick with the name Red Dog, as Brooklyn, California already existed in Alameda County. Several times, the town was devastated by fire; each time, it was rebuilt. The fire of January 1859 resulted in an $8,600 loss. The fire of August 1862 destroyed most of the town's business district, resulting in a $50,000 loss.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of Nevada City ) 〕 An Odd Fellows Lodge preceded the building of a Masonic Lodge, which opened on the east side of Main Street in 1862.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Masonic Lodge in Red Dog, Nevada County, Calif., 1862–1872 Mount Carmel Lodge, No. 155, F. & A. M. )〕 In 1863, Main Street and Plumb Street had two general variety stores, a hardware and tin shop, a shoemaker's shop, butcher's shop, blacksmith's shop, dressmaker's shop, two hotels, three saloons, and stands for fruit and liquor. Macy & Martin of Red Dog are credited with inventing a rifled nozzle for Hydraulic mining in 1863, an improvement subsequently used by all hydraulic nozzles. By 1867, the town had four cement Stamp mills, including Wright & Company, and Cozzens, Garber & Company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bean's History & Directory of Nevada County, California, 1867 )〕 But the continuous rains of 1867–68 washed away the mine's hydraulic ditches and flumes destroying much of the town. Many of the approximately 300 residents left, and many of the buildings, including the Odd Fellows Lodge, were moved to You Bet.〔〔 The post office remained until 1869. While three cement mills were operating in Red Dog in 1873, including Wier & Garber, Williams & Riggs, and Wright & Company, the Mason's Lodge closed. Red Dog Cemetery is the only part of the town that remains today.〔 It is located on You Bet Road near Red Dog Road in what is now Nevada City.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Historic Cemeteries )〕 Stehr (died 1881), Stehr's son, Chew (died 1900) and three of Chew's brothers are buried there.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Red Dog, California」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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