Sutter Creek, CA.

Sutter Creek CA.
click photo to enlarge	Before the gold rush the Sutter Creek area was settled for an excellent source of lumber, a large Sugar Pine stand. Unlike many of the gold rush towns mining continued at Sutter Creek until the mines were shut down by an executive order in 1942. Although, like other towns the easy placer gold ran out and the mining moved to deep rock mining in the 1850s.
click photo to enlarge	Sutter Creek is located in Amador county and had many restaurants and hotels and was an interesting town to walk. A nice place for tourons like me to visit I guess. Sutter Creek, known as the "Jewel of the Mother Lode," was named after John Sutter, who sent a party to the area in 1846 in search of timber. Sutter logged this area for a while before returning to his fort in Sacramento.
click photo to enlarge	Sutter's discovery of gold at nearby Coloma in January 1848 triggered the California Gold Rush. After all his workers left him to go on their own hunt for gold, Sutter moved to Mormon Island with a couple of hands. After about 2 weeks miners flooded the island so Sutter and his hands left and once again went to Sutter Creek. There are a number of original brick buildings still standing in Sutter Creek. One of it's most famous residents was Leland Stanford.
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Sutter Creek CA.