The history of Paxton, California, begins with the 1850s gold miners working the Feather River's rich placer deposits, mining developers who constructed a 30-ton processing mill, and the subsequent acquisition by the Indian Valley Railroad which constructed a rail line from the Western Pacific Railroad connection at Paxton, over 20 miles through Indian Valley.
Lawson details the construction of the iconic Paxton Lodge in 1918, a 17-room, three-story edifice perched high on the bluff ov.
Memoir Books A history of paxton, california, paperback/scott j. lawson
