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Democrat Hill appears on J. G. Hartwell's 1880 map of Nevada County and in its list of mines. On the 1898 Colfax quadrangle map and on the 1909 California State Mining Bureau map of Nevada County, it appears as
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187:"ew diggings have been struck about a mile from Remington Hill, that are exceeding (sic) rich. Three men took out four ounces and four dollars in one day, in addition to paying water money. The diggings have been named Democrat Hill."
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