A gold-mining and milling settlement on Senator Highway, named after Venice by the Italian settler F. Scopel in the early 1900s. It had a twenty-stamp mill, store, saloon, stage stop and post office. Today the rugged backroad passes collapsed structures and mining remnants.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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