Ballarat California

Also in the 1960s, another famous (or infamous) visitor came regularly to Ballarat. Charles Manson with his family of killers stayed at the Barker ranch south of town, and left their graffiti in Ballarat. An old Dodge Power Wagon parked near the general store still bears the stars the family used as their signature, on its headliner.

This comes from a posting on a forum elsewhere where I mentioned the Chinese migration into Victoria in the gold rush.
I got a response I did not expect

What is "Ballarat" in Chinese literature?
Exploring the California desert many many years ago, I visited a ghost town near Death Valley called Ballerat. The Chinese imigrants helped build the railroads through that area. Ballarat

__________________So here goes. Gold was discovered in Australia in 1851 two years after the California gold rush of 1849 and soon afterwards the population of Australia, which had had a hard time establishing itself, exploded. Melbourne, although fifty years younger than Sydney, was for a time the fastest growing city on the planet as diggers flooded in to the goldmines in the hinterland primarily at Bendigo and Ballarat (sometimes Ballaarat). Lola Montez danced in the shanty pubs of the diggings.
There was much transport between the diggings here and California.
Many Chinese came to Australia until laws which would last a century racially restricted migration

John Alloo’s Chinese restaurant, Ballarat, 1855
John Alloo (Chin Thum Lock) owned a restaurant at the gold diggings in Ballarat, Australia, and worked as a government interpreter in Victoria.
Here is a San Francisco reference to San Francisco Chronicle

In the 19th century, Chinese immigrants coined the nickname “Gold Mountain” to describe San Francisco --

THe Victorian side from the Public Records Office of Victoria

Chinese men had first come to Victoria in large numbers during the 1850s gold rushes. For them Australia was ‘Tsin Chin Shan’, the land of the New Gold Mountain.

The Chinese mainly came from the thirteen counties around Canton, the capital of Kwangtung province. These Chinese had very similar physical appearances, ideals and temperaments. They were generally described as a sober, peace loving, kindly, industrious and frugal people. Some of them however acquired what were seen as bad habits and tastes, such as opium smoking and gambling. Many also practised idol and ancestor worship which was seen at that time to be unacceptable, was misunderstood, and was considered to be a threat to the Christian way of life as practised in Australia.
Poverty was widespread in parts of China, especially in Canton. The gold rushes and the decades that followed were a time when Victoria appeared very attractive to people wishing to escape from the economic conditions at home in Europe as well as in Asia.
Approximately one-third of the Chinese immigrants to Victoria were free and independent, paying their own passages. These people were mainly artisans, shopkeepers and merchants. Many of these immigrants would have been able to read and write Chinese – and increasingly also English.
The other two thirds came under a credit ticket system and were mainly farmers who borrowed money for their passages from rich bankers, village elders or wealthy money lenders and left their land as security. Those who came under the credit-ticket system had to repay debts as soon as they earned enough money in the Australian colonies. Many of the Chinese in this second group went to the goldfields.

Chinese Funerary Burners: A Census shows the connection between South East Australia and the eastern seaboard of US and Canada in the 19th Century