After the discovery of gold 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 Diggins after the manner in which the miners moved cartloads of dry soil to running water to separate the gold from the soil. Later, in 1849, the town earned its most common historical name, "Hangtown," because of...
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