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The Bohemia district and Bohemia Johnson

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

In 1863 a prospector from central Europe that everyone called Bohemia Johnson struck lode gold high on the mountain that now carries his name, above the placer color found on Sharps Creek five years earlier. The district he helped found in 1867 grew mines like the Champion and the Musick and a mountain settlement called Bohemia City, and it gave up around a million dollars in gold, silver and copper before the hard rock and the winters won. The workings are documented and the country is still hunted.

The ground it haunts

Bohemia Mountain, about 25 miles southeast of Cottage Grove (Lane County, OR). Source: TRUE FIND: a documented Cascade gold district. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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