It was named after a woman in the miners camp called Elizabeth Stark Blakesley.

It was started from other gold mining camps all around American Valley (where Quincy, CA is now located).

After that, Lewis Stark, Peter Day, and George Ferrier one morning went up Elizabeth ravine and by noon they panned out an ounce of gold.

Many buildings were moved to Quincy and rebuilt there and slowly the town dissolved into history.

[2] After the "New Year's Flood" in January, 1997, a local resident discovered the cobblestone corner of a foundation had been exposed by the high water flow through the creek bed.

[6] There is a stone and metal monument to the town by the Native Sons and Daughters of Quincy on September 9, 1927.