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Hammonton, California
39°11′35″N 121°25′15″W / 39.19306°N 121.42083°W
Hammonton (formerly, Dredgertown and Dredgerville)[2] is a former settlement in Yuba County, California. It is located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south of Browns Valley,[2] at an elevation of 131 feet (40 m). Hammonton was a company town for the Yuba Consolidated Mines, which dredged gold from the Yuba River floodplain. Established in 1906, Hammonton had 250 residents, a store, service station, and swimming pool by 1938, when the townspeople were forced to move two miles so that the original townsite could be razed and dredged.[3] In 1957, the residents were again relocated, this time to Linda, so that the new townsite could also be dredged; Hammonton ceased to exist at that time.[4] The Yuba Goldfields now cover the townsites. A post office operated at Hammonton from 1906 to 1957.[2] The name is in honor of W.P. Hammon, gold-dredging company official.[2] References
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