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Once known as Bed Bug, Freeze Out, Hardscrabble, and more...
Once known as Bed Bug, Freeze Out, Hardscrabble, and more...
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December 21, 1878
THE AMADOR TIMES, Ione City, Amador County, California, Dec. 21, 1878
* Very rare Old West title
At the very least this town in Northern California has a vibrant past in terms of its name, having had many name changes including Bed Bug, Bedbug, Freeze Out, Hardscrabble, Ione City, Woosterville, Jone City, Jone Valley, and Rickeyville. Ione was an important supply center on the main road to the mother lode and southern mines during the California Gold Rush. The Town of Ione continued to grow and prosper after its gold rush founding. At the centennial of 1876 just two years previous to this date, Ione had a population of about 600 which included about 100 Chinese who lived in Ione's Chinatown. The town included one public school, 4 churches, 4 general stores, one meat market, one laundry, one brewery, a restaurant, millinery shop, an art gallery, six saloons, a drug store and barber shop, and many other business establishments. The centennial also celebrated the completion of the railroad to the town of Ione.
Four pages, various news of the day with a great wealth of advertisements, evenly toned, a bit irregular at the spine margin, some minor margin tears, generally good.
Category: The Old West
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