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CALAVERAS COUNTY COMMUNITIES

Calaveras County nestles into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range and is in the heart of Northern California's Gold Country. You can expect its towns and villages to reflect that! This is mining country!

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Angels Camp Museum;
(CC) Isolino Ferreira

Dorrington's claim to fame is as a stopping off place between
Murphys and Ebbetts Pass, and as a resort town for people visiting Calaveras Big Trees.

Forest Meadows is a gated community with a golf course, vacation rentals, parks, and hiking/riding trails.

Glencoe - once called Mosquito Gulch - is an old mining town that
is registered an a California Historical Landmark.

Moke Hill, as it's referred to by the locals is officially Mokelumne Hill and was named after the Mokelumne River. The area of Mokelumne Hill was one of the richest gold mining sites in all of California.

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Main Street Murphys;
(CC) Stephen Colebourne

A California Historical Landmark, Mountain Ranch has moved around a bit in its long history and has somehow accumulated three post office buildings.

Dubbed "One of the Top 10 Coolest Small Towns in America" by Frommers, Murphy's is home to Ironstone Vineyards and Winery, the Murphys Hotel, and Mercer Caverns.

Rail Road Flat isn't named for an actual railroad - it never had one - but for the mule-drawn cars used to transport ore.

Rancho Calaveras is located in the Valley Springs area of western Calaveras County, off State Route 26.

You might be tempted to assume that San Andreas has something
to do with or is somewhere near the San Andreas fault, but it was founded by Mexican gold miners and named after St. Andrew parish.

Oddly enough, given the previous paragraph, Sheep Ranch was in fact named for a sheep ranch! In fact, it's still a free-range area and there are hundreds of sheep that roam freely throughout the town.

While Murphys was originally known as Murphys New Diggings, Vallecito - which means Little Valley in Spanish - was formerly called Murphys Old Diggings, and is home to Moaning Cavern.

Part of Western Calaveras County, Valley Springs is surrounded by three beautiful lakes. The home of founders George and Rebecca Late - built from locally quarried limestone - is still in excellent condition.

Wallace is in the far Northwest corner of Calaveras County and was named after John Wallace - not the son, according to historian Sal Manna, but the father.

Another Gold Rush era California Historical Landmark, West Point, CA was named for scout Kit Carson's former camp, which was located in the area.

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