Enterprise, Amador County, California

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in California, United States}}

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Enterprise is a former mining camp in Amador County, California. It is located {{convert|5.5|mi|km}} west-northwest of Fiddletown, on Big Indian Creek,{{California's Geographic Names|482}} at an elevation of 876 feet (267 m). Established to mine quartz, at its peak it had a population of around a hundred, but the prospects did not pan out, and there are only a few houses in the area now.{{cite book|

page=233|title=History of Amador County, California: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers|first=Jesse D.|last=Mason|publisher=Thompson & West|location=Oackland, California|date=1881|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejCisC9w054C&pg=PA233|access-date=2020-05-28}}

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Category:Unincorporated communities in California

Category:Unincorporated communities in Amador County, California

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