Black Bear was a gold mining town in Klamath County, now in unincorporated Siskiyou County, California.[1]

It is located on Black Bear Creek, a tributary of the South Fork Salmon River.[1]

History

Gold was discovered in the area in 1860, and Black Bear became the trading center for a number of mines in the area. A post office was established 1869.[2] From 1874 it was within that part of Klamath County annexed to Siskiyou County. Its post office was closed and moved to Sawyers Bar in 1941.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Black Bear
  2. ^ Gudde, Erwin Gustav; Gudde, Elisabeth K. (1975). "Black Bear". California gold camps : a geographical and historical dictionary of camps, towns, and localities where gold was found and mined, wayside stations and trading centers. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 38–39. ISBN 978-0-520-02572-1.
  3. ^ Frickstad, Walter N., A Century of California Post Offices 1848-1954, Philatelic Research Society, Oakland, CA. 1955, Pages 60-69.

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