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Barkerville
Question | Answer |
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It was the largest town North of where, and West of where? | San Francisco, Chicago. |
How many people lived there? | 5,000 |
Who first found gold in 1862? | Billy Barker |
How much gold did Barker get? | 1100 kg |
What purposes did the Caribou road pose? | Lowered inflation and brough women. |
What did it have a lot of? | Chinese immigrants. |
What destroyed it in 1868? | A fire, it was rebuilt 12 yrs. later. |
What happened to it in the end? | It became a ghost town. |