New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum
New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum is a museum in Santa Clara County, California. New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum is situated nearby to Hacienda Cemetery and Memorial Park, as well as near New Almaden Post Office.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Almaden Reservoir.
Almaden Reservoir
Reservoir
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Almaden Reservoir is an artificial lake in the hills south of San Jose, California in the United States. It borders on the 4,163-acre Almaden Quicksilver County Park, which provides limited fishing, picnicking, hiking, and horseback riding activities.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New Almaden and Almaden Valley.
New Almaden
Hamlet
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New Almaden, known in Spanish as Nuevo Almadén, is a historic community and former mercury mine in the Capitancillos Hills of San Jose, California, located at the southwestern point of Almaden Valley in South San Jose.
Almaden Valley
Suburb
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Almaden Valley, commonly known simply as Almaden, is a valley and neighborhood of San Jose, California, located in South San Jose. It is nestled between the Santa Cruz Mountains to the west and the Santa Teresa Hills to the east, bordering the town of Los Gatos and West San Jose neighborhood. Almaden Valley is situated 4 miles northwest of New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum.
Mountain Home
Hamlet
Mountain Home, also known as Casa Loma, is a sparsely populated area located on the eastern side of the Santa Cruz Mountains in unincorporated southwest Santa Clara County, California near Mount Chual and Rancho Canada del Oro Open Space Preserves. Mountain Home is situated 4 miles south of New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum.
New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum
- Type: Museum
- Address: CA
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.17842° or 37° 10′ 42″ northLongitude
-121.81954° or 121° 49′ 10″ westElevation
476 feet (145 metres)Open location code
849W55HJ+95OpenStreetMap ID
node 368174563OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museum
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