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Posted Sep 21, 2009, 6:39 PM
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California Gold Country, Pt 2
For Labor Day weekend, a good friend of mine and I spent the weekend driving down Highway 49 in the Sierra foothills from Auburn to Sonora, visiting many of the old historic mining towns. Most of these towns now are filled with restaurants and shopping, and the gold country has become more wine country.
"Part 1" I did a while back, featuring where I grew up
Gold Country:
Part 1: Auburn, Grass Valley Nevada City
Part 2: Coloma, Placerville, Nashville, Drytown, Amador City, Sutter Creek
Part 3: Angels Camp, San Andreas, Jackson
Part 4: Sonora
From google maps, a frame of reference where we traveled.
Coloma, CA
It's appropriate to start here as John W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma in 1848, starting the "California Gold Rush".
The American River
Placerville (pop 9,994)
While 40 miles east, Placerville is today considered part of the Sacramento metropolitan area. County seat of El Dorado County.
Nashville, CA
Clearly nothing like the Tennessee version. My friend and I thought this was the type of place in which you would break down in a horror movie and get murdered. Luckily, that didn't happen.
It didn't really look that way to us
Drytown, CA (pop 200)
Named after the creek it's near (Dry Creek) not after any lack of drinking establishments. Reportedly the oldest community in Amador County (1850s).
Amador City (pop 213)
Supposedly the smallest incorporated city in California.
This was interesting and random novelty, especially since it was in disrepair.
Sutter Creek (pop 2,303)
We finally arrived at our overnight destination, Sonora.
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Tour of California
1: Los Angeles, 2: Hollywood, Glendale, Pasadena, Beverly Hills, 3: Riverside, Santa Ana, Long Beach, 4: San Jose, 5: San Diego, 6: Fresno, 7: Stockton, Modesto, 8: Gold Country, 9: Eureka, Arcata, 10: Monterey, Carmel, 11: Santa Cruz, 12: Sacramento Pt One, 13: Sacramento Pt Two, 14: Roseville & Folsom, 15: Concord & Walnut Creek, 16: Tri-Valley, 17: Berkeley, Emeryville, 18: Fremont, 19: Santa Clara, Mountain View, Palo Alto, 20: Redwood City, Foster City, San Mateo, 21: Oakland, 22: Benicia, Vallejo, 23: Napa, St. Helena, 24: Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Sonoma, 25: San Rafael, 26: Larkspur, Mill Valley, 27: Sausalito, Tiburon, 28: Hollister, San Juan Bautista, 29: Long Beach 2008, 30: Venice, 31: Santa Monica, 32: Sacramento Pt 3, 33: Solvang, 34: Alameda, 35: Knights Ferry, 36: California Zephyr, 37: Colfax, 38: Davis, 39: Oakdale, 40: San Francisco Pt 1, San Francisco Pt 2, 41: Chico, Redding, 42: Kings Beach, 43: Merced
Last edited by stepper77; Sep 30, 2009 at 10:40 PM.
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