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An Illustrated History of California's Gold Rush by Wells Fargo Bank (PH 1-27) (34 pages)
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Page: of 34
Gold Rush boomtown a
names of the period: Han Maes
interesting
Philip Armour and Sno
ank Monk, Mark Hopt:
wshoe Thompson, Hee
Hank Monk was the cantankerous st
drove Horace Greeley rocking and bouncing at
ferocious clip over the hair-raising mo : ‘i
from Carson City to Placerville, answering the aes
man’s outraged protests by bellowing, “Keep your
seat, Horace, I'll get you there on time.”
age driver who
Mark Hopkins got his start here, as did Philip
Armour, who parlayed his village butcher shop into
one of the largest meat packing houses in the country. And the deeds of Snowshoe Thompson are
legend in this area. For twelve years this giant
woodsman tramped the trail from Placerville to
Genoa, just south of Carson City—a trail which, in
winter, was impassable to anyone else. He carried
mail, supplies, and on one occasion a cast iron stove.
The tales of his strength, courage and generosity are
still told in this area.
From Placerville, Highway 49 takes you south to
Sutter Creek by way of Diamond Springs and El
Dorado. These towns have little remaining of their
former status. El Dorado was originally known as
Mud Springs in its heyday, and Diamond Springs
boasts an I.0.0.F. Hall built in 1852 and an original
Wells Fargo office which has now been turned ze
a restaurant. At Diamond Springs you can turn eas
to Somerset and Fiddletown, or west to Shingle
Springs and Rescue.
FIDDLETOWN Fiddletown was named by ot Ae
its original Missourian residents who felt that a ms
young men did was fiddle. Bret Harte’s story, =
Incident in Fiddletown,” is well worth reading Ge
fore you go, to help evoke the atmosphere of bee
. town as it was more than a century ago. A numbe
of original buildings can still be seen in Gee Ate
—among them a “rammed earth” structure of adobe
built by Chinese ’49’ers.
West of Diamond Springs are the towns of Shingle
Springs, Rescue, Pinch-em-Tight and Gold Hill.
Shingle Springs boasts an original Wells Fargo office
remarkably preserved and Gold Hill has a sandstone
store built in 1859,
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