Toadtown, California facts for kids

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Unincorporated community
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Country	United States
State	California
County	Butte County
Elevation	2,782 ft (848 m)

Toadtown (formerly, Allentown) is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California. It lies at an elevation of 2782 feet (848 m).

A sawmill was established near Toadtown, on Little Butte Creek, in 1859. A major underground gold mine at the site began a few years later, and had a ball mill for crushing hard gold-bearing rock. The El Monte mine made a strike of high-grade ore in September, 1930, which yielded several hundred dollars and some good specimens. All traces of mining activity were gone by 1970.