Dog Town

Dog Town is a California Historical Landmark in Mono County.

7 miles south of Bridgeport, U.S. Highway 395 · location approximate

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Site of the first major gold rush to California's eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, Dog Town derived its name from a popular miners' term for camps with huts or hovels. Ruins, lying close to the cliff bordering Dog Town Creek, are all that remain of the makeshift dwellings which here formed part of the "diggins."

1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.

Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗

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Historical maps covering this location

1873 · Topographical Map of Central California Together With a Part of Nevada, Sheet IV. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1909 · Bridgeport, California (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1915 · Topographic map of Yosemite National Park, California (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
1929 · Topographic map of Yosemite National Park, California (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Topographical Map of Central California Together With a Part of Nevada, Sheet IV, 1873, covering the location of Dog Town, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Topographical Map of Central California Together With a Part of Nevada, Sheet IV, 1873, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)

Dog Town

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