Business district in Mariposa burns

Most of the central business area of Mariposa, California burned to the ground after a fire started in a house on Main Street. Damage to almost fifty businesses added up to more than $200,000. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1859 (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1859), 370.
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Type
    Crime/Disasters
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