Hildreth
Unincorporated community
Hildreth is located in California
Hildreth
Hildreth
Location in California
Hildreth is located in the United States
Hildreth
Hildreth
Hildreth (the United States)
Coordinates: 37°06′32″N 119°37′59″W / 37.10889°N 119.63306°W / 37.10889; -119.63306
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
CountyMadera County
Elevation
[1]
1,247 ft (380 m)

Hildreth is an unincorporated community in Madera County, California.[1] It is located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east-southeast of O'Neals,[2] at an elevation of 1247 feet (380 m).[1]

In the late 1870s, Tom Hildreth opened a store at the site, thereby beginning the town named for him.[2] A post office operated at Hildreth from 1886 to 1896.[2] At its peak in the 1880s, Hildreth had a hotel, three general stores, a mine, a barbershop, and other businesses catering to miners and travelers on the stage road from Millerton. The town "officially died" in 1896 when the post office closed.[3] Gold mining in the Hildreth district briefly revived in the late 1920s,[4] but the town was never repopulated. By 2010, only the schoolhouse and cemetery remained.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hildreth, California
  2. ^ a b c Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 782. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
  3. ^ a b Coate, Bill (October 14, 2010). "Bloodshed at the Hildreth Hotel". The Fresno Bee. Fresno, CA. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
  4. ^ Coultrap, M.L. (August 25, 1929). "Mining revived in old Hildreth district, with prospects good". The Fresno Morning Republican. Fresno, CA. Retrieved November 29, 2023.


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