Is it legal to collect at Mentryville oil-boom company town?

Prohibited, look only. Chevron donated the townsite and 800 acres of Pico Canyon to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy in 1995 and it is run as a historic park (California Historical Landmark 516-2); treat it as no-dig public parkland.

What can you find at Mentryville oil-boom company town?

Indian Head cents, Barber coins, oilfield hardware, square and wire nails, buttons, toys, harness buckles, bottles

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Mentryville oil-boom company town

Ghost town Documented siteProhibited, look only

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokens

Nails and fittings

Buttons and buckles

Also reported: Indian Head cents, toys, bottles.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).

Why this spot

1876-1930s oilfield town

Oil town in Pico Canyon built around Pico No. 4, the first commercially successful oil well in California, with homes, a school, boarding houses, a machine shop and no saloon. It held over 200 people around 1900 and emptied in the 1930s as output fell and residents carried their houses away.View source →