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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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Georgetown CA Civil War Armory, built in 1862, circa 2014. The Armory is the oldest brick building in Georgetown and is the only extant Civil War armory building in El Dorado County, CA 11: Hattie (Gold Bug), Priest and Silver Pine Mines and Stampmill: Hattie (Gold Bug), Priest and Silver Pine Mines and Stampmill: November 15, 1985
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 ...
Placerville — a city in and county seat of El Dorado County, located in the Sierra foothills of California. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.