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 ...

Preston Castle was abandoned and largely exposed ... There are rumors that the place, like other parts of Ione, is haunted. “If you drive by the prison, it’s kind of cool,” said Nina Flores ...

IONE, Calif. — Dad always told me if ... Yes, like many an old, abandoned building, the Preston Castle is said to be haunted by ghosts, not just the tortured soul of the murdered Anna Corbin ...

30 in Pine Grove; roaringcampgold.com. If your kiddos love a good spine-tingler, make time for a tour of the 19th-century Preston Castle in Ione, about 10 miles west of Jackson. Once a home for wa ...

one of the few remaining objects amid the eerie gloom of Preston Castle, the once notorious reform school in California’s Gold Country. These days, Ione’s 19th-century castle is a spooky ...