R.A. Plaskett First White Child Born in Cherokee
The miners of Cherokee camp celebrated their first native son: Reason Alpha Plaskett, born December 1852.
Reason Alpha Plaskett was born in December 1852 at the Cherokee mining camp in Butte County, California, while his father William Lucas washed gold from the gravel — the first white child born in that camp.
The miners made him their celebration, as they had already made his mother their bank: the men of Cherokee trusted Sarah Plaskett with their sacks of gold, the safest vault in the diggings. Her son’s arrival sealed the family’s place in the camp’s short, bright history.
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