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El Dorado County was one of the original counties established when California became a state. Although Coloma, the initial county seat, promised to build several new buildings to serve the county government, an observer noted in 1856 "the present buildings are not suitable in which to transact the business of the Empire county" [3] and the county seat was moved to Placerville in 1857.
El Dorado County (/ ˌ ɛ l d ə ˈ r ɑː d oʊ / ⓘ; El Dorado, Spanish for "The Golden [one]"), officially the County of El Dorado, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 191,185. [6] The county seat is Placerville. [7]
Placerville (/ ˈ p l æ s ər v ɪ l /, PLASS-ər-vil; placer, Spanish for "sand deposit", representing the placer mining that was predominant in the town's development, and ville, French for "town") is a city in and the county seat of El Dorado County, California, United States. The population was 10,747 as of the 2020 census, up from 10,389 ...
Art Cort Sky Theater. The Community Observatory [1] is a public outreach observatory located in Placerville, California, on the campus of the El Dorado Learning Center. [2] The Community Observatory was established in 2006 through the work of the Rotarians of Cameron Park as free family-friendly park for the community.
At one time it was the town jail, the Pacific Gas & Electric Company office (1927-1961), and has had other associated uses and owners. When the building was donated to the El Dorado County Historical Society in 1981 by Fay Ripley Cannon, it became a museum upon the contingency that it be preserved for public benefit as a historical landmark ...
The Sheriff’s Office said an evacuation shelter was set up at the El Dorado Library’s Placerville branch, 345 Fair Lane and an overnight shelter was set up at Union Mine High School, 6530 Koki ...
Cold Springs (formerly, Cold Spring) [4] is a census-designated place [5] in El Dorado County, California. [2] It is located 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Placerville, [4] at an elevation of 1207 feet (368 m). [2] It has a population of 446. A post office operated at Cold Spring (as it was then called) from in or before 1852 to 1874. [4]
When the El Dorado County Fair used to rotate the location of the event, Confidence Hall was one of its venues in Placerville. [7] In 1902, the building became Placerville City Hall. [8] The Placerville City Library, the first public library in the county, was established in the upper floor of the building in 1906. [9]