TRUE FIND: a documented Cascade gold district
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.
Bohemia Mountain, about 25 miles southeast of Cottage Grove (Lane County, OR)
See it on the map
Other places on the map within a couple of hours of here.
