Water Transportation

Significant remnants of those early placer mining years are the Truett’s, or Buckskin, Ditch and the Mt. Brow Ditch, which took water from Littlejohns Creek north of present State Route 4 and conveyed it to the diggings on the Stanislaus River.

Author: 
Judith Marvin

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  • Albert Michelson, who measured the speed of light and became the first American to win the Nobel Prize (1907), attended school in Murphys.

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