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A pair of Gold Rush towns in the Mother
Lode a few miles south of Placerville, California, El Dorado
and Diamond Springs are like brothers, friendly rivals only
two miles apart. This book also covers other almost forgotten
mining camps in the vicinity, Ringgold, Logtown and Aurum
City. It tells incidents of the Gold Rush in this small slice
of the mining region--a few killings and a few lynchings before
the places got civilized--but also the social events and items
of importance to the towns in the 1850s.
Both
towns were ravaged by fires, but even so there are notable
remnants from the early days. The book contains maps of the
area and of both towns, pointing out buildings and building
sites. Worth special mention is the Odd Fellows Hall in Diamond
Springs, in continuous use since 1852.
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book contains numerous photographs, as do all in the Western
Places series, both 19th century ones and others taken recently.
People and places are indexed. |
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Town of the Mountains |
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Most
people know Coloma only as the site of California's gold discovery,
but this book is about the town that was built at this lovely
spot on the banks of the South Fork of the American River.
Coloma became a trading and communications center, and the
first county seat of El Dorado County. Today it has a small
resident population, and the Gold Discovery State Park, which
preserves some of the early buildings. This book will tell
you of the buildings and the ruins, and of the people who
made Coloma the first substantial town of the Mother Lode.
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The
area about Clear Lake - California's largest natural lake
- has been long known as a playground for the Bay Area. There
are numerous resorts featuring tall pines, hot springs, and
the lake itself - as well as substantial agriculture. This
book discusses the history of each of the settlements in the
county, richly illustrated with old photographs.
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