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| Topic: Mining
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| •Mining has been, from the beginning, a major industry in California.
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| •Wherever a successful mine can be found, a town to support that mine will be nearby.
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| •Fascinating names were established for these towns and no less fascinating names for the Lodges Chartered therein
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| •Rough and Ready at a camp by the same name in Nevada County;
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| •Indian Diggings Lodge in El Dorado County;
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| •Saint Mark 's Lodge at Fiddletown;
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| •Oro Fino, at a town by that name in Siskiyou County;
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| •Violet Lodge at Spanish Flat;
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| •Rising Sun Lodge at Brandy City;
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| •Mount Carmel Lodge at Red Dog, Nevada County.
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| •Added color to the local landscape, and made Masonry a part of the community.
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