Brandy City, California

Brandy City, California
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 39°32′16″N 121°01′31″W
Country	United States
State	California
County	Sierra
Elevation	3,707 ft (1,130 m)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
Area code	530
GNIS feature ID	1658126[1]

Brandy City, formerly known as Strychnine City, is an unincorporated community in Sierra County, California, United States, 7.5 miles (12.1 km) west of Goodyears Bar.^[2]

The settlement is on Cherokee Creek, a tributary of the North Fork of the Yuba River. Gold was discovered there in 1850 and mined in the 19th century and again in the 1920s. There was a school, and until 1926 a post office.^[3]

See also

• California Gold Rush
• List of ghost towns in California

References

1. "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
2. Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Quill Driver Books. p. 537. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
3. Gudde, Erwin G.; Gudde, Elisabeth K. (ed.) (2009). California Gold Camps: A Geographical and Historical Dictionary of Camps, Towns, and Localities where Gold was Found and Mined, Wayside Stations and Trading Centers. Berkeley: University of California. p. 45. ISBN 9780520261440. {{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)