Oregon City, formerly Bloomingdale and Hengy,[3] is a ghost town located between Oroville and Cherokee in Butte County, California.

One of the first mining camps in the county, it was established in the autumn of 1848 by a party of Oregonians,[4] who came to California over the Applegate and Lassen trails.

Little more than a year later their captain, Peter H. Burnett, became the first civil Governor of California.

For a time, Oregon City prospered as a gold mining and supply center, then it declined into virtual oblivion.

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