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A former Maidu settlement called Indak was located at the site of the town. [9]After the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in nearby Coloma, California, by James W. Marshall in 1848 sparked the California Gold Rush, the small town now known as Placerville was known as Dry Diggin's after the manner in which the miners moved cartloads of dry soil to run water to separate the gold from the soil.
Pilot Hill (formerly, Centerville, Pilothill, and Pittsfield) is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California. [1] It is located 13 miles (21 km) west-northwest of Placerville , [ 3 ] at an elevation of 1175 feet (358 m).
El Dorado County's seat, Placerville, is located 45 miles from Sacramento, the state's capital. The leadership of the movement acknowledges that it is unlikely that the California legislature would approve their separation from the state, as required by the United States Constitution. They promote an unproven theory that the county "is ...
Gold Hill (formerly, Granite Hill) [2] is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California. [1] It is located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Coloma, [2] at an elevation of 1621 feet (494 m). [1] Originally a mining district, Gold Hill became an important farming region once a canal was dug to the area from Hangtown Creek, near Placerville.
Iowa HIll Road. Iowa Hill Road is a "narrow and serpentine" [1] road in Placer County, California.It is in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.It connects the town of Colfax (elevation 2,425 feet) with the Sugar Pine Reservoir (elevation 3,609 feet), passing through the historic gold mining community of Iowa Hill (elevation 2,861 feet).
Placer County (/ ˈ p l æ s ər / PLASS-ər; Placer, Spanish for "sand deposit"), officially the County of Placer, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 404,739. [4] The county seat is Auburn. [5] Placer County is included in the Greater Sacramento metropolitan area.
Foresthill is a census-designated place (CDP) in Placer County, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,692 at the 2020 census, up from 1,483 at the 2010 census.
Iowa Hill (formerly, Iowa City) [2] is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California, United States. [1] The town is located 6.5 miles northwest of Foresthill [ 2 ] 9 miles east of Colfax and 58 miles northeast of Sacramento .