Brownsville Mining District Cemetery
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Brownsville Mining District Cemetery

Murphys, Calaveras County, California, USA

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    Coordinates: 38.12835, -120.44263
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The Brownsville Mining District was in the area of Pennsylvania and Missouri Gulches about 2 miles outside of Murphys, CA. The cemetery in that area, which now has a monument calling it 'Brownsville", was called the Douglas Flat Cemetery because the fields across from the small Douglas Camp was considered Douglas Flat and that extended all the way over to Coyote Creek where it crosses the current Skunk Ranch Road. The only grave still visible is enclosed by a iron fence and has 3 members of the Webster family in it. The marker on it was placed after John Henry Webster died in the early 1900s and requested to be buried next to his parents who both died in the 1850s.
At one time there were many grave markers but a foreman for the Adams Ranch tore them from the ground and threw them in the creek to make more room for cattle to graze according to Fred Kinney, who was a later caretaker for the ranch.
The Brownsville Mining District was in the area of Pennsylvania and Missouri Gulches about 2 miles outside of Murphys, CA. The cemetery in that area, which now has a monument calling it 'Brownsville", was called the Douglas Flat Cemetery because the fields across from the small Douglas Camp was considered Douglas Flat and that extended all the way over to Coyote Creek where it crosses the current Skunk Ranch Road. The only grave still visible is enclosed by a iron fence and has 3 members of the Webster family in it. The marker on it was placed after John Henry Webster died in the early 1900s and requested to be buried next to his parents who both died in the 1850s.
At one time there were many grave markers but a foreman for the Adams Ranch tore them from the ground and threw them in the creek to make more room for cattle to graze according to Fred Kinney, who was a later caretaker for the ranch.

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