About nine miles south of the town of El Dorado is the town of Nashville, which for a time was known as Quartzville, Quartzburg and even Tennessee Bar. It is the one still remaining of a group of towns that…
Community Profiles – Murderer’s Bar
Among the names given to the mining camps of early California, none is more accurately descriptive than the one given a camp on the Middle Fork of the American River – a camp named “Murderer’s Bar.” Although it sometimes shows…
Community Profiles – Mud Springs (El Dorado)
Although the townsite of El Dorado was one of the first mining camps in El Dorado county, it was not always known by this very appropriate name. Up until late 1855, some six years after the first miners coaxed golden…
Community Profiles – Mt. Aukum
Neatly divided by Mt. Aukum Road (County Road E-16), and lying just north of the Amador – El Dorado County, line is the town of Mt. Aukum. This has not always been the name of this town, at times it…
Community Profiles – Mosquito
The present Swansboro Country, which is located some nine miles northeast of Placerville, is part of an early mining community known as Mosquito. Originally called Mosquito Valley, placer (gravel) mining occurred there as early as 1849 and soon there were…
Community Profiles – Mormon Island
Mormon Island was a mining camp on the South Fork of the American River, some fifteen miles west of Coloma and three miles east of Folsom. It was in actuality a very large gravel bar (it is also known as…