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Content/DescriptionView of small mining town showing several buildings at right with townspeople, horses and dogs standing nearby. Small bridge (Freeman's Crossing) over river at left with worked out mining area along river bank. Freeman's Crossing was located about a half mile below where Oregon Creek flows into the Yuba and about a mile and a half northwest of North San Juan (Calif.). The first bridge was built by Thomas Hess in 1851, rebuilt in 1852, and sold to Thomas Freeman in 1854.