Calaveras Heritage Council

From its beginnings in 1860 to the end of World War II, Copperopolis has been directly related to and affected by the extraction and production of copper ore.

The history of the Flower family and their land machinations is extremely complex. Nathan Flower and his brother, Roswell P.

Egan/Flower. James and Mary Egan patented land just east of the Flowers Ranch boundary (southern half of Section 3, T1N, R12E), where they raised a family of 14 children.

The eldest son, Robert Harrison Callahan, and his wife, Josephine Kuhn, took up land west of the senior Callahans (western half of Section 9, T1N, R12E) sometime prior to 1881, probably shortly after

The lands taken up by members of the Callahan family from the 1870s through the 1890s may have been occupied by others in the 1850s and 1860s, but no deeds were located.

A brush fence, depicted on the 1870 GLO (northwestern quarter of the northwestern quarter of Section 9, T1N, R12E) was located upon the 40-acre ranch of John and Elizabeth Vickrey, who patented the la

The first person to be assessed for the lands on Baker’s Flat was Joseph Lewis in 1858.

The man who was to have the longest connection with the lands in the Flowers Ranch area was Nathan Monroe Flower (a.k.a.

Some of the lands in the Flowers Ranch area near Copperopolis were taken up in the 1850s, with farms and dwellings located on the ferry roads and along Littlejohns Creek.

Following the discovery of gold in 1848, hordes of eager argonauts swept into the Mother Lode.