Ragtown, California

Ragtown is a disappeared town in the Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California, USA. [ [http://www.traveljournals.net/explore/united_states/map/u252961/ragtown.html Latitude: 34° 39' 54 N, Longitude: 116° 9' 7] .]

A plaque in memory of this place is installed by E Clampus Vitus on May 3, 1981 about 6 miles south of Ludlow, California. [ [http://www.billyholcomb.com/billy_holcomb_chapter_plaques.htm Billy Holcomb chapter plaques] , E Clampus Vitus] The plaque says:

:::Site of Ragtown and the Buckeye Mining DistrictAt this location, Ragtown stood as a part of the once-booming "Buckeye Mining District". One mine in the district, the Bagdad-Chase, discovered by John Suter in the 1880s, [The book "Desert Fever, An Overview of Mining in the Desert", by Vredenburgh, Larry M., Shumway, Gary L., Hartill, Russell D. (1981), [http://vredenburgh.org/desert_fever/index.html partly available online] , in its section [http://vredenburgh.org/desert_fever/pages/san_bernardino_12.htm "San Bernardino County"] says that John Suter discovered gold in the Bagdad-Chase area in about 1898.] was to become the largest single source of copper and gold in San Bernardino County. The owner, Benjamin Chase, built the Ludlow and Southern Railroad, just west of here, to carry ore to the Santa Fe Railroad in Ludlow.

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