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PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA
Placerville is the county seat of El Dorado
county after it was moved from Coloma in
1857. El Dorado is a word first used by the
indians in Peru and means "the guilded one"
but in the Mother Lode it was used as gold.
Gov. Richard Mason reported to Washington
that a couple of ranchers, W. Daylor and
Perry McCoon had
McCoon had found gold at Dry
Diggin's. With the wealth came an army of
outlaws known as the Owls. Three of them
robbed a Mr. Cailloux and after a street trial
were hung from an oak tree at the corner of
Main and Coloma Streets. After this the town
was known as Hangtown. It was from
Hangtown
"Snow-Shoe Thompson"
made his first trip across the Sierra in the
dead of winter to carry mail to Nevada in
January 1856...M.P.
that
Photo-color by Merle Porter
& published by Royal Pictures-Colton, California
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