AND A CRIMINAL PAST JUST TO BE CLEAR, JUST BECAUSE HALLOWEEN IS OVER DOESN’T MEAN THIS SPOT MAY NOT STILL VERY MUCH BE HAUNTED. PERCHED ABOVE THE AMADOR COUNTY TOWN OF IONE SITS A SPOT SO SIGNIFICANT ...
The Ione Hotel, less than a mile from Preston Castle, was built to house miners and was a stagecoach depot during the Gold Rush. The hotel was rebuilt after a fire in 1910 and renamed the Golden Star ...
Preston Castle in Ione was a reform school for delinquent youths called the Preston School of Industry from 1894 until 1960. The castle closed in 1960, but new facilities for the school on the grounds ...