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The Gold Country (also known as Mother Lode Country) is a historic region in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California, that is primarily on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada. It is famed for the mineral deposits and gold mines that attracted waves of immigrants, known as the 49ers , during the 1849 California Gold Rush .
Beginning in 1919, the Mother Lode Highway Association, a group of locals and historians, lobbied for the creation of a highway to connect many relevant locations to honor the California Gold Rush and the 49ers. [13] [14] [15] In 1921, the stretch of road from Sonora to Auburn was officially named The Mother Lode Highway. [12]
The Mother Lode coincides with the suture line of a terrane, the Smartville Block. [4] The zone contains hundreds of mines and prospects, including some of the best-known historic mines of the gold-rush era. Individual gold deposits within the Mother Lode are gold-bearing quartz veins up to 15 metres (49 ft) thick and a few thousand feet long ...
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Lloyd Raffetto also known as Lloyd A. Raffetto, Lloyd Alexander Raffetto, and "Raff" (1897-1988), was a noted [1] Italian-American-Irish-American co-inventor of an ice cream manufacturing process, entrepreneur, and banker who owned the Raffles Hotel (now Carey House) and co-founded the Mother Lode Bank, both of Placerville, California.
Mother Lode was not well received by critics. The review in TV Guide dismissed the film as "mediocre". [5] Variety was more positive: "As the title indicates, the consuming issue in Mother Lode is a search for gold. The picture is not without shortcomings, but is long on good performances, charismatic people in the three principal roles ...
State Route 120 runs through it, and serves as the eastern entry point for Yosemite National Park, at the Tioga Pass Entrance Station. It is the highest elevation highway pass in California and in the Sierra Nevada at an elevation of 9,945 ft (3,031 m). [1] [2] Mount Dana is to the east of the pass, and Gaylor Peak to the west.