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We would like to provide the residents of  Volcano  a basic history overview.


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

Volcano has a population of 45. 57.8% of Volcano’s inhabitants are Male, and 42.2 are female. 100% of Volcano is married and 100% own their own home. Volcano’s Ethnic is the following: White(80%), Asian(20%).


The town is named for its setting in a bowl-shaped valley which early gold miners thought was caused by a volcano. Early morning fog rising from the valley floor only reinforced that belief. The area was first designated by Colonel Stevenson's men, who mined Soldiers Gulch in 1849. In 1851 a post office was established and by April 1852 there were 300 houses.


By 1853 the flats and gulches swarmed with men, and there were 11 stores, six hotels, three bakeries, and three saloons. Hydraulic mining operations, begun in 1855, brought thousands of fortune seekers to form a town of 17 hotels, a library, a theater, and courts of quick justice.During the Civil War, Volcano's gold served the Union.


The "Volcano Blues" smuggled the 800 lb cannon "Old Abe," into the town by hearse, to intimidate rebel sympathizers. The cannon was cast by Cyrus Alger & Co. in Boston in 1837 and is the first of two 6-pounders made on the same day to be stamped with serial number 4. The other cannon still survives at Shiloh Battlefield and is called "Shiloh Sam".


"Old Abe" was only fired once during the Civil War. The Confederate faction known as Knights of the Golden Circle owned many of the Main Street businesses. "Old Abe" was fired down Main Street causing windows to break in all the shops that had not been warned – the ones sympathetic to the South. Abe is the only cannon of that age in the U.S.


still on a nineteenth century wooden carriage. The landmark St. George Hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Volcano almost became the county seat in 1854 and again in 1857, but the newspaper closed in 1857 and afterwards, the town began to decline.Although small, Volcano is a town of many "firsts": 1854 First theater group in California 1854 First debating society in California 1854 First circulating library in California 1855 First private schools in California 1855 First private law school in California 1856 First legal hanging in Amador County 1860 First astronomical observatory in California 1978 First solar still in California


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