Richmond was a very short-lived mining community of the late 1850s and early1860s south of Susanville. Today, its best known for the Richmond Elementary School and the Diamond Mountain Golf Course.

In 1859, Frank Drake built a story and half log structure used as a store and hotel. The following year, with business booming, he built a two-story frame structure 30’x60’. The good times did not last long. By the end of 1862 with diminished gold from Hill and Lassen Creeks, along with the mining discoveries on the Humboldt and Comstock decimated the town. The hotel found a new life as a hay barn. On March 24, 1908 it was toppled over by a windstorm.

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