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AREA SERVED BY GRANITEVILLE
CEMETERY
GRANITEVILLE AREA
This cemetery seems to have served a large area, which includes Bowman Ranch, Shand, Cherry Hill, upper portions of
Poorman's Creek, and Graniteville.
BOWMAN RANCH now lies at the bottom of Bowman Reservoir.
This ranch was purchased anda dam built on Big Canyon
Creek, which then flooded this ranch. It was then joined
with other reservoirs to supply the necessary water for
mining. Over one hundred miles of ditches joined the lakes
and mines, keeping the mines supplied with water most of the
year. It was ideal to have these dams at the higher elevations because of the greater rain fall and the snow pack.
This helped to provide water to the mines at the lower elevations about ten months of the year.
SHAND was a stage stop with a boarding house and tavern for
the use of miners and travelers. It later sold and thereafter was called QUINN RANCH. The Quinn family lived in
the hotel, using a portion of it asa boarding house. A
cabin still stood on this site until it was destroyed by
fire in the mid-1980's.
POORMAN'S CREEK travels from the Graniteville area in three
forks, combining into one major stream before entering the
South Fork of the Yuba River near Washington. Gold was
discovered early in this stream.
GRANITEVILLE was first named EUREKA, but when they applied
for a post office in 1867, they were required to change the
name because there was already a Eureka in California, hence
it was called EUREKA SOUTH. In 1877 the name was changed to
Graniteville to avoid confusion with Eureka. This town
served as the shopping and social center for the other
settlements included in this chapter. The first mining here
was in the Spring of 1850, and the following year deeper
diggings were discovered. In the early days, water was only
available in Spring and Winter, so the resulting population
fluctuation held the town back for Many years. The winter
population sometimes got as high as 600, while the summer
population was usually around 200 or less. In an unusually
dry year, the summer population sometimes got as low as 20
Or 30. Eureka was a lively, thriving town until the surface
Claims were depleted in about 1858. In 1866 the excitement
of mining the gold from quartz got the town going again and
the population steadied. In 1869 the town contained two
hotels, five saloons, two stores, a blacksmith and a
Carpenter shop, with the public school opening that year. By
1878 it contained two hotels, two stores, three saloons, one
brewery, one bakery, one market, one livery stable, a school
and a Catholic church, but in August of that year fire
destroyed all but one of these businesses. By 1879 the
population was about 300, and most of the businesses had
rebuilt. Since that time many mines have come and gone in
this area, and the town presently has about ten fulltime
residents. The main social and business activity is a Labor
Day fund raiser, with funds being used to restore the old
school house. The businesses are all gone, however many of
(he old buildings can still be seen.
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