In 2000 archaeologists did an excavation of the past site of Miner Channel and uncovered artifacts from 1890s to the 1930s.

[2] Rancho Campo de los Franceses was a 48,747-acre (197.27 km2) Mexican land grant in the San Joaquin County, California.

In 1844 by Mexican Governor Manuel Micheltorena granted the land to Guillermo Gulnac.

[3] The ranch was given the name Campo de los Franceses, because French-Canadian fur trappers who wintered there.

The Rancho Campo de los Franceses covered the present-day cites of French Camp and Stockton.