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Piety Hill Provides Reminder of the Gold Era

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Piety Hill, an 1849 gold mining settlement in the heart of Wintu Territory, was the first community built west of Clear Creek in Shasta County, Calif. The miners had followed the gold deposits up the gulches of Clear Creek toward Dry Creek. For a time, t

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Gail Fiorini-Jenner