Lucky Jim Camp

[2] Lucky Jim Camp was the home of miners sympathetic to the Confederate cause during the American Civil War.

A one mile (1.6 km) up the canyon, above Huse Spring, was a camp with Union sympathies called Buster Falls.

[3]: 15, and Note 33 [4]: 611 El Dorado City with its stamp mill, established in late 1863, was located just a short distance down the same side of the canyon as the older Lucky Jim Camp, and may have supplanted it by the end of the war or shortly thereafter, when the mines had a period of idleness.

[5] The site of Lucky Jim Camp appears barren of any trace of ruins viewed by satellite photos.

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