Poverty Bar, California

Poverty Bar[1] is a former settlement in Calaveras County, California, active from c. 1850s to 1862, and now covered by the waters of Camanche Reservoir.

[1][2] Poverty Bar was founded south of the Mokelumne River from Lancha Plana in Amador County as a gold mining town during the California Gold Rush, nearby Camanche, California, Cat Camp, and Sand Hill.

[1] Poverty Bar had a major fire on the night of September 7, 1859.

[3] During the American Civil War the town raised the Union Guard a California Militia Company in 1861 and maintained it until its declining population forced it to be moved.

"On July 23, 1866, the company was reorganized and their headquarters moved to Campo Seco.