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California senator becomes owner of Gwin mine

Submitted by Sloane DellOrto on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 16:04.

The first set of U.S. Senators from California (1850) were abolitionist John Fremont and Southern sympathizer William Gwin. The latter later owned the Gwin Mine near what today is Paloma.

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