Atlanta Area
In the summer of 1863 a party led by John Stanley, from whom Stanley Basin is named, found encouraging color on the Yuba River, two miles west of what in now Atlanta, and organized a mining district there. By mid-October a hundred miners were at work. In November an extensive quartz-gold deposit, 1 1/2 miles long and about twenty feet wide, called the Atlanta lode, was discovered just east of the Yuba River.
| Fishing trip to Atlanta July 19, 2003. | |
The mining town of Atlanta, Idaho July 19, 2003. |
