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1859 Historic National HotelJamestown, CA
A woman checks into the National Hotel In Jamestown. The year is 1897. She is searching for her fiancé who came out west in 1895 to work on the railroad. She and her fiancé, John Davies, were going to settle in Jamestown as the railroad ended there.
At least that was the plan. She gets to Jamestown, checks into the hotel. No John Davies. He’s just gone. Disappeared. What happened? She goes to the Sierra Railway Station every day. No John Davies. At night she cries her heart out in her room. As time goes on, her trips to the train station become fewer and fewer and she starts roaming the halls of the hotel at night. Where is John Davies????? Four weeks later – kaput - she’s dead. Died of a broken heart. A piece of paper on her nightstand addressed to her fiancé declares her love for him and that she’ll never stop looking for him. And she hasn’t. She’s still hanging around the hotel. Flo, as she is called since her name was lost during a fire in the early 1900s that destroyed all the records, likes to stay upstairs mostly. Especially in the rooms in the front of the building. So she can see John Davies as he comes walking down the street???? Doors slam, lights turn on and off. Clothing is sometimes dumped out of guests’ suitcases. Sounds of a woman sobbing. And sometimes, in the early morning, she’s seen in the downstairs dining room floating right through the walls! Each of the guest rooms has a notebook for recording experiences and comments. What will be your ghostly tale to add to the notebook? Another cool feature of this old gold rush hotel is the Soaking Room. NOT a Jacuzzi!
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The 1859 Historic National Hotel is halfway between Yosemite and Lake Tahoe. It is one of the oldest continuously operating hotels in California. Address: 18183 Main Street, Jamestown, CA. Phone: (209) 984-3446 Read what other travelers are saying about this great old gold rush hotel. And while you're in the heart of California's gold country, you gotta try your hand at gold panning!
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