Kearsarge or Kearsarge City is a former mining settlement in Inyo County , eastern California . It was located high on the east slope of the Sierra Nevada , near Kearsage Pass, 8 miles (13 km) west of present-day town of Independence, California .
7-935: Kearsarge may refer to: Places in the United States [ edit ] Kearsarge, California , in Inyo County Kearsarge, Michigan , in Houghton County Kearsarge, New Hampshire , a village in Carroll County Mount Kearsarge (Merrimack County, New Hampshire) , mountain in the New Hampshire towns of Wilmot, Sutton, and Warner Kearsarge Regional High School , serving several towns in Merrimack County, New Hampshire Kearsarge North ,
14-677: A stamp mill in Nevada, receiving $ 900 a ton. The news of location of their mine leaked out, and the Kearsarge Mining District, and eponymous mining camp below the mines, was established high in the Eastern Sierra. Several mine investors purchased the three main silver claims, forming the Kearsarge Mining Company. These new owners had driven a 50-foot (15 m) tunnel into the southeast side of
21-862: A peak in the White Mountains of New Hampshire Kearsarge House , grand hotel in North Conway, New Hampshire Kearsarge Pass , a mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada of California Kearsarge Peak , a mountain in Inyo County, California Kearsarge Pinnacles , pillars in Kings Canyon National Park, California Ships [ edit ] USS Kearsarge , several ships in the United States Navy Kearsarge -class battleship in
28-518: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kearsarge, California The mining camp was in the Kearsarge Mining District, located just below the 12,621-foot-high (3,847 m) high granite Kearsarge Peak , and east of the Kearsarge Pass . Kearsarge was named after the Union man-of-war USS Kearsarge , which had recently sunk
35-562: The Confederate ship CSS Alabama off the coast of France. A nearby settlement had been named Alabama Hills by Confederate sympathizers, so this "evened the score" after the naval battle. In the Autumn of 1864, on the side of a then-unnamed mountain, five woodcutters discovered a vein of rich silver and gold ore. The men staked their claims to Kearsarge, Silver Sprout, and Virginia Mines. They mined and shipped four tons of ore to
42-739: The U.S. Navy See also [ edit ] The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama The Kearsarge at Boulogne Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kearsarge . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kearsarge&oldid=1143105546 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
49-404: The mountain by August 1865, reaching $ 650+ per ton ore. After a winter of heavy snow, on the afternoon of March 1, 1866, an avalanche swept away most of the town and some of the population, killing the wife of the mine foreman and injuring several men. A camp was relocated to a safer site nearby, but most of the town's population departed, except the miners who continued to operate the mines and
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