Higgins Point is a former mining camp in El Dorado County, California.[1] It was located a half mile west of the center of Salmon Falls.[1] The place was named for the first person to open a store there, an Australian named Higgins.[1] Rich diggings of gold were discovered by Mormons at Higgins Point in 1849.[2] Higgins Point was the first part of Salmon Falls to be laid out as a town, starting in 1853.[3]
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- 1 2 3 Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 550. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
- ↑ Paolo Sioli, Historical Souvenir of El Dorado County, California, p. 202, Georgetown, California| Cedar Ridge Publishing, 1998 (reprint from 1883) OCLC 171053577.
- ↑ Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California, vol. 6 (1848–1959), p. 352, San Francisco: The History Company, 1888 OCLC 1084372855
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