Visit Albany Flat's Historic Sites
During 1851, when the placers of Six Mile Creek were proving
incredibly rich, a mining camp known as Albany Flat sprang into
prominence. Before long an estimated fifteen hundred miners were
working the creeks, gulches and ravines in this area, mining great
quantities of gold which they readily spent at the stores, restaurants,
and saloons that appeared almost overnight. At one time, the stretch of
road on both sides of what is now the last building of Albany Flat, the
Romaggi Adobe, was lined with buildings and it looked like the town had
gained a measure of permanence. But once the rich placers were
depleted, the camp declined even quicker than it had grown, and soon
the place was deserted. By 1856, three miners and one merchant were the
sole inhabitants, and Albany Flat was just a wide spot of countryside
on the road between Carson Hill and Angels Camp.