10,954
61%
$60,334
26.3%
America/Los_Angeles
95667
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Placerville, CA - History
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Welcome to the Placerville Home page. The Placerville Home page provides as much information as possible on Placerville. Knowing Placerville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Placerville’s Home page, you will also find Placerville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Placerville has a population of 10954. 44.5% of Placerville’s inhabitants are Male, and 55.5 are female. 45.5% of Placerville is married and 60.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $361,425, and the average rent is $1,148. Household median income in Placerville is $60,334, and the individual median income is $28,011. Placerville’s Ethnic is the following: White(89.9%), Hispanic(20%), Other(4.2%), Multiple(3.5%), Asian(0.8%), Black(0.8%), Native(0.5%), Pacific(0.2%).
A former Maidu settlement called Indak was located at the site of the town.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.Later in 1849, the town earned its most common historical name, "Hangtown", because of the numerous hangings that had occurred there.
However, there is debate on exactly how many lynchings occurred in the town. The town had no police force (in 1849) and five immigrants attempted robbery of a Mexican gambler. Of the five immigrants, two Frenchmen and one Chilean were known wanted men, and they were not given any trial, instead they were hanged on an oak tree on Main Street by a mob.
The name "Hangtown" stuck after that event.By about 1850, the temperance league and a few local churches had begun to request that a more friendly name be bestowed upon the town. The name was not changed until 1854 when the City of Placerville was incorporated. At its incorporation, Placerville was the third largest town in California.
In 1857, the county seat was then moved from Coloma to Placerville, where it remains today. The town's first post office opened in 1850. In 1871, the Placerville Union Cemetery was founded by a group of fraternal organizations, and it holds the graves of many of the city founders.Placerville was a central hub for the Mother Lode region's mining operations.
The town had many services, including transportation (of people and goods), lodging, banking, and had a market and general store. The history of hard-rock mining is evidenced by an open and accessible Gold Bug Park & Mine, now a museum with tours and books.The Southern Pacific Railroad once had a branch line that extended from Sacramento to Placerville.
The track was abandoned in the 1980s. The Camino, Placerville and Lake Tahoe Railroad (now abandoned) also operated an eight-mile (thirteen-kilometer) shortline that operated between Camino, California, and Placerville until June 17, 1986. The track right-of-way is now a 37-mile hiking and biking path that connects the city of Folsom, California to the town of Camino with plans to extend the trail across the entire El Dorado county and eventually to Lake Tahoe.Placerville is now registered as California Historical Landmark #701.Placerville's logo featured a hangman's noose, in reference to the town's history as "Hangtown," until 2021, when the town council voted to remove it.
An earlier proposal to redesign the logo had been rejected in 2020.
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