FOLSOM, Calif. — On the south bank of Lake Natoma in Folsom, just east of the Rainbow Bridge entrance, there are stairs leading to nowhere.
The stairs are across the street from Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park and lead down the bank into a large divot into the ground.
Shelby Sorensen manages the Folsom History Museum on Sutter Street. She said the steps and divot are remnants of a property belonging to Andy Colner, a gold buyer who lived in a house on the bank around the 1940s.
“You are seeing what is left of the pool that was on the property of the Colner residence,” Sorensen told ABC10.
Colner was born around 1895 in Austria, according to the 1940 U.S. Federal Census available on Ancestry.com.
In 1940, he was roughly 45-years-old and lived in California with his wife, Marie.
