In El Dorado County there were, at one time or another, over 100 post offices with some 120 different names. Some had a short life and some apparently never even existed at all, although history books make reference to them.…
Post Offices of El Dorado County, Part 3 – “B” and “C”
In El Dorado County there were, at one time or another, over 100 post offices with some 120 different names. Some had a short life and some apparently never even existed at all, although history books make reference to them.…
Post Offices of El Dorado County, Part 2 – Starting with “A”
In El Dorado County alone there were, at one time or another, over 100 post offices with some 120 different names ranging through the alphabet from Alabaster to Zodok. Some had a very short life and some, like Coloma, the…
Post Offices of El Dorado County, Part 1 – The Beginning
Prior to both the Gold Rush and the ceding of California to the United States by Mexico in early 1848, the mail system in California consisted of numerous “unofficial” post offices and a simple, but efficient, military mail delivery system.…
Steppin’ Out – “Out and About”
There are a number of places that I have written about and then later get the opportunity to try something new. Then there are places that have specials I want to try. Rather than try to create a whole new…
American River Canyon, Part 7 – Lover’s Leap to the Summit
Because the present Highway 50 is north of the original route through Strawberry Valley, it bypasses three stations that were along the old road that passed between the two halves of Lover’s Leap: Baker’s Place, Devil’s Gap (Section House) and…