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Virtual Guidebook to
The Mother Lode Gold Country
Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Mariposa, and Madera Counties, California

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The goldminer statue in Auburn.

Table of Contents
(listed from north to south)

Nevada City (4)
Grass Valley (2)
Placer County (5)
Foresthill / American River Grove (4)
El Dorado County (5)
Calaveras County (1)
Sonora, Columbia, and Jamestown (2)
Knights Ferry and Chinese Camp (7)
Lake Don Pedro and Moccasin (4)
Big Oak Flat and Groveland (2)
Coulterville and Bear Valley (3)
Mariposa County (7)

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Complete Listing (see also the Fullscreen versions)
listed from north to south

Nevada City
The Pennsylvania Engine Company firehouse in Nevada City.
Historic Broad Street in Nevada City.
At the corner of Pine and Broad Streets, Nevada City.
The National Hotel, oldest in California, on Broad Street in Nevada City.
Grass Valley
The impressive Nevada County Bank, on Mill Street in Grass Valley.
The landmark Del Oro Theater on Mill Street, Grass Valley.
Placer County
A statue of a miner panning for gold, Old Town Auburn.
Old Town Auburn, with the landmark firehouse tower.
The Placer County Courthouse in Auburn.
Main Street in Colfax.
The North Fork of the American River, on the Iowa Hill Road.
Foresthill and the Placer County Grove of Giant Sequoias
North Fork of the Middle Fork of the American River, from Mosquito Ridge.
From the Grouse Falls Overlook on Mosquito Ridge.
Western azaleas blooming in the Placer County Grove of Giant Sequoias.
Young Sequoias in the Placer County Grove.
El Dorado County
North Fork of the American River, above the proposed Auburn Dam.
The actual gold discovery site, Sutters Mill on the American River at Coloma.
Replica of the sawmill at Coloma.
Monument to James Marshall, discoverer of gold at Coloma in 1848.
James Marshall's cabin, on the hill above Coloma.
Calaveras County
The jumping frog monument in Angels Camp.
Sonora, Columbia, and Jamestown
Harvest festival, Columbia.
The old Wells Fargo Building in Columbia.
Knights Ferry and Chinese Camp
Knights Ferry, mill buildings and covered bridge on the Stanislaus River.
Historic 1898 hydroelectric plant at Knights Ferry.
Inside the covered bridge at Knights Ferry.
Typical lower foothills countryside, near Knights Ferry.
Tuolumne Table Mountain, near Yosemite Junction.
Sierra Pacific log yard at Chinese Camp.
The old Wells Fargo building on the main street of Chinese Camp.
Lake Don Pedro and Moccasin
Highway 49/120 bridge over Don Pedro Lake.
The dam, fish hatchery, afterbay, powerhouse and penstocks at Moccasin.
Moccasin was a "company town" built as part of the Hetch Hetchy water and power project.
The Old Priest Grade, one of the steepest roads in the west.
Big Oak Flat and Groveland
The Iron Door Saloon in Groveland claims to be California's oldest.
Highway 120 forms the main street of Groveland.
Coulterville and Bear Valley
The main street of Coulterville.
The locomotive "Whistling Billy" outside the museum in Coulterville.
Highway 49 runs right through historic Bear Valley, center of the Mariposa Grant.
Mariposa
Lower foothils, between Planada and Catheys Valley on Highway 140.
Foothills woodland on the Dancefire Ranch, Indian Gulch Road.
Blue oak woodland on Indian Gulch Road, north of Catheys Valley.
The Mariposa County Courthouse is the oldest in the state.
Historic buildings line the main street of Mariposa.
Forest belt meadow, Jerseydale Road, east of Mariposa.
Mountain misery and black-eyed Susan's, Jerseydale Road.
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