Gold Dredge — Calisphere
These massive dredges were designed to recover millions of dollars worth of gold from Northern California's ancient river bottoms. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, many people called them land-going ships because they floated across the otherwise dry landscape in their own self-made ponds. The dreadge featured here, one of the very last to operate, coud handle 18 cubic feet of river ...