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San Andreas was originally established as a mining camp by Mexican gold miners in 1848. The gold uncovered from the town's underground river channels and placer mines contributed to the Union's success during the American Civil War. [36] Chili Gulch was the richest placer mining section in Calaveras County. [37]
San Andreas (Californio Spanish for "St. Andrew") is an unincorporated census-designated place and the county seat of Calaveras County, California. The population was 2,783 at the 2010 census, up from 2,615 at the 2000 census. Like most towns in the region, it was founded during the California Gold Rush.
Calaveras Big Trees State Park is a state park of California, United States, preserving two groves of giant sequoia trees. Located 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Arnold, California in the middle elevations of the Sierra Nevada , it has been a major tourist attraction since 1852, when the existence of the trees was first widely reported.
Calaveras County (/ ˌ k æ l ə ˈ v ɛr ə s / ⓘ), officially the County of Calaveras, is a county in both the Gold Country and High Sierra regions of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 45,292. [6] The county seat is San Andreas. [7] Angels Camp is the county's only incorporated city.
State Route 12 (SR 12) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that travels in an east–west direction from State Route 116 in Sebastopol in Sonoma County to State Route 49 just north of San Andreas in Calaveras County. The route connects the Sonoma and Napa valleys with the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and the Sierra Foothills.
Nevada County – This county had the most gold out of all of Gold County pulled out of it totaling $440 million worth. Holbrooke Hotel is one of the oldest hotels still operating in Gold Country. It was built in 1851. Empire Mine was a well known mine in the area, which is now a state park. This mine extends 200 miles underground.
Rich Gulch was the seat of Calaveras County at one time, and at its 1850s peak was a significant gold-mining center home to some five thousand residents. The town saw a secondary mining boom in the 1880s. The 1862 hotel was still standing, abandoned, in 1920. [3] A post office was opened at Pleasant Springs in 1855.
Rancho Calaveras is a census-designated place (CDP) in Calaveras County, California, United States. The population was 5,325 at the 2010 census, up from 4,182 at the 2000 census. The population was 5,325 at the 2010 census, up from 4,182 at the 2000 census.