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Welcome to the Camptonville Home page. The Camptonville Home page provides as much information as possible on Camptonville. Knowing Camptonville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Camptonville’s Home page, you will also find Camptonville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Camptonville has a population of 179. 41.9% of Camptonville’s inhabitants are Male, and 58.1 are female. 71.7% of Camptonville is married and 70% own their own home. Household median income in Camptonville is $97,763, and the individual median income is $47,778. Camptonville’s Ethnic is the following: White(86%), Hispanic(22.3%), Multiple(13.4%), Pacific(0.6%).


Gold was discovered here in 1850, and the place became known as Gold Ridge. The name was changed to Camptonville in 1854 when the first post office opened. The name honors Robert Campton, the town blacksmith.It was a significant community in the California Gold Rush era and a stopping point for travelers and freight haulers along Henness Pass Road, a major route over the Sierra Nevada via Henness Pass in the 1850s and 1860s.


A plaque in Camptonville says the roaring town had over fifty saloons had brothels and even a bowling alley at one time. However, by 1863 William H. Brewer passed through Camptonville and described it in his journal as follows: September 10 we started on our way--first to Nevada [City], a few miles, a fine town in a rich mining region, then to San Juan North (there are several other San Juans in the state), then to Camptonville, a miserable, dilapidated town, but very picturesquely located, with immense hydraulic diggings about.


The amount of soil sluiced away in this way seems incredible. Bluffs sixty to a hundred feet thick have been washed away for hundreds of acres together. But they were not rich, the gold has “stopped,” the town is dilapidated--but we had to pay big prices nevertheless. As gold mining in the area waned, the local economy depended on the timber industry.


When Sierra Mountain Mills closed in 1994 putting 75 people out of work, many people moved away. Today the town includes the Lost Nugget gas station and convenience store, a post office, Camptonville Elementary School; a monument to the Pelton wheel, the inventor of which lived here in the 1860s; and the original Mayo Saloon, currently home to a restaurant and bar called Burgee Dave's at the Mayo; and the Yuba River Ranger District Office of the Tahoe National Forest, which is also the headquarters of the Tahoe Hotshots fire crew.


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