Cocomongo
Around the turn of the 20th century, gold ore was discovered by Will Watson, W.B. Lawler, and Ernest Baker on Cocomongo Mountain and a camp so-named was born around the Joanna mine. About thirty miners resided at Cocomongo, and in 1904 a new discovery by Charlie Wah became the Pick and Gad mine. In 1905, the Hartford-Nevada Gold Mining Company took over the mines before soon merging with the Gold Canyon Mining Company. The next year, a 40-ton mill with four 1000-pound Nissen stamps was completed and connected to the Joanna mine by a tramway. It operated for two years before the Hartford-Nevada Company failed, and Cocomongo was soon abandoned. The mill was ultimately dismantled in 1917 and moved to Piermont.
