It was a couple of weeks before Christmas, 1886 – December 3rd, to be exact. “Colonel” Alonzo Winfield Scott Smith was out exploring the back country of eastern Ventura County, near the confluence of Piru and Lockwood Creeks. And some might say it was a Christmas miracle: Voilà! Smith stumbled across a “lost” gold mine. Or maybe it […]
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