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Woolsey's Mining Shack

Spring Fling 2009 entry.

William Anderson Woolsey, my 3g grandfather was a 49'er. I decided to make my house based on a miner's shack. I did lots of research to get the details right, such as the type of mining done during the period he was there.

Anderson, as he was called, was 19 or 20 when gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill. He left Missouri and headed west. He had returned to Missouri before his marriage in 1853.

I don't know where he was in the goldfields, but one source placed a large number miners from Missouri in the mining community of Fiddletown. When the miners were snowed in, the younger men played the fiddles, hence the name. Unaware of the community, I chose a banjo as Anderson's instrument to play while relaxing in the rocker on the front porch.

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