"The "California Mining Company" from Harrison County city of Franklin, Ohio left that city on May 1, 1849 for an eighteen months stay in the California gold region. This group was equipped with ten wagons and forty mules." ______________ Hi Listers, I hope I have just found the wagon train my grandfather BARCROFT traveled to California with. Looks now as though I have some newspapers to locate. Has anyone on the list heard of this wagon train previously? >From Wm. Disbrow postings I see a lot of people in the Mariposa are were from Ohio and I have been hoping to connect with someone researching them to find out how they arrived in Mariposa. Harriet