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38°05′12″N 120°44′59″W / 38.08667°N 120.74972°W / 38.08667; -120.74972

Unincorporated community in California, United States
Lost City
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Coordinates: 38°05′12″N 120°44′59″W / 38.08667°N 120.74972°W / 38.08667; -120.74972
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
CountyCalaveras County
Elevation1,053 ft (321 m)

Lost City (formerly Stone City and Stone Creek Settlement) is an unincorporated community in Calaveras County, California, 11 miles (18 km) from Angels Camp along Bear Creek. It lies at an elevation of 1053 feet (321 m). Lost City was constructed in the 1870s by Eugene Barbe. It consists of roughly one dozen stone buildings, which may have been an early Icarian commune (followers of the utopian socialist ideals of Etienne Cabet). The settlement was abandoned by 1896, though a few walls of the original dry-laid field stone buildings remain. The ruins are currently on private land.

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lost City, California
  2. ^ "CAL FIRE Archaeology Program: Archaeological Investigations at Lost City, Calaveras County, California". calfire.ca.gov/. Cal Fire. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
  3. Pisio, Rick. "Lost City Ruins". RWP Photography. Retrieved July 22, 2015.

Further reading

  • Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 797. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
Municipalities and communities of Calaveras County, California, United States
County seat: San Andreas
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