Plaque Inscription:
Called Whiskey Flat until 1864, Kernville was founded in 1860 when whiskey dealer Adam Hamilton
moved shop here from more temperate Quartzburg, founded earlier that year. Both camps resulted from a discovery by 'Lovely'
Rogers, who found the Big Blue Ledge while tracking a stray mule from the earlier camp of Keysville.
Location: Kern County, at the Old Kernville Cemetery,
Wofford Rd, 2.7 mi SE of Kernville.
GPS Coordinates for plaque: 35˚43.214N –
118˚26.155W (JMP)
Text and lyrics available on ‘Songs
Of The Southern California Mines’ – rfm# 047
