La Laguna was a gold mining town in New Mexico Territory, now Yuma County, Arizona. It was in existence for a short time from 1860 to 1862. The town was a steamboat landing 20 miles above Yuma, Arizona on the Colorado River. It had a few merchants and a ferry across the Colorado River that served placer miners in the vicinity. When the La Paz gold rush began, La Laguna began to decline and it was soon replaced by Castle Dome Landing, 15 miles to the north, following the discovery of gold in the Castle Dome Mountains. It remained for a time as the site of a store and a ranch, belonging to Jose Redondo, one of the first to mine gold at La Paz.
The site of La Laguna now lies beneath Mittry Lake.
See also
References
- Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852–1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978 Archived 2016-01-18 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Ghost Towns of Arizona – La Laguna
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mittry Lake
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| Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |
32°49′07″N 114°29′19″W / 32.8186553°N 114.4885597°W / 32.8186553; -114.4885597
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