Roachville is a former small mining settlement, now in Inyo County, California. It was founded in 1861 on the east slope of the White Mountains, at the lower reaches of Cottonwood Creek northwest of White Mountain City.
History
Roachville and White Mountain City, settlements east of the White Mountains from Owens Valley, were used for a California election fraud in the fall of 1861. The Warm Springs precinct covering these sparsely populated settlements was populated with an additional 521 voters culled from the passenger list of a steamship that had recently arrived in San Francisco. [1] [2]
Location
The site of Roachville is on Cottonwood Creek, northeast of White Mountain City near the Mono County, California border.
References
- ^ Chalfant, Willie Arthur (1922). The story of Inyo. The Internet Archive. Chicago: Published by the author through Hammond Press. p. 173.
-
^ Hoover, Mildred Brook; Rensch, Hero Eugene; Rensch, Ethel Grace; Abeloe, William N.; Kyle, Douglas E. (2002).
Historic spots in California. Internet Archive (5th ed.). Stanford: Stanford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-8047-4482-9.
{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year ( link)
Municipalities and communities of
Inyo County, California, United States | ||
|---|---|---|
| City |  | |
| CDPs | ||
|
Unincorporated communities | ||
|
Indian reservations | ||
| Ghost towns | ||
| Other | ||
 | This Inyo County, California-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |