Lost Chinese Cache — Volcanoville

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Lost Chinese Cache — Volcanoville

Lost Treasure CA • El Dorado County County
Description
Mother Lode ghost-town legend of a wealthy Chinese store owner's buried gold near Volcanoville — landmarks lost in the 1879 fire, with a dozen or more Chinese caches rumored in the Cooley Mine district.
Historical Notes
Volcanoville on the Middle Fork American River boomed in the 1850s with a large Chinatown and quartz mines including the Cooley (Chinese) Mine. Anthony Belli and El Dorado County museum research recount a store owner who sold out, returned from China years later, and could not relocate his cache after the 1879 fire erased landmarks. The same district saw violent anti-Chinese incidents in the 1870s and cave-in deaths in the 1890s, fueling persistent treasure-hunter interest in buried pokes and strongboxes.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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