Madera County Road 607

[Max Rockatansky]

Madera County Road 607 is an approximately seven-mile rural unsurfaced highway which spans from Road 600 near Raymond west to Road 29.  Road 607 west from Raymond Road Cemetery (established in 1905) is part of the Stockton-Los Angeles Road corridor surveyed in 1853.  The corridor lies in the gap between Fresno Crossing at the Fresno River west to Newton's Crossing at the Chowchilla River. 

The Buchanan Copper Mine would be along what is now Road 607 in the namesake Buchanan Hollow during July 1863.  The Buchanan Mine is thought to have once had a population of between 1,000-1,500 residents by the early 1870s.  Copper prices would decline in the decade after the Civil War and much of the activity at Buchanan shifted towards cattle ranching.  The last businesses in the community would shutter during World War II and it is now a true ghost town. 

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