Roachville, California
Roachville is a former small mining settlement, now in
White Mountain City
.
History
Roachville and
White Mountain City, settlements east of the White Mountains from Owens Valley, were used for a California election fraud in the fall of 1861. The Warm Springs precinct covering these sparsely populated settlements was populated with an additional 521 voters culled from the passenger list of a steamship that had recently arrived in San Francisco.[1][2]
Location
The site of Roachville is on Cottonwood Creek, northeast of White Mountain City near the Mono County, California border.
References
- ^ Chalfant, Willie Arthur (1922). The story of Inyo. The Internet Archive. Chicago: Published by the author through Hammond Press. p. 173.
- ISBN 978-0-8047-4482-9.)
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