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| Landmark #570 | El Dorado County | Visited: August 14, 2016 | Plaque? NO. 🙁 |
| What is it? | The only traces of this landmark are in the Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery! |
| What makes it historical? | THE GUIDE SAYS: These historic mining towns, and other mining camps of the gold rush era now inundated by Folsom Lake, are commemorated by the nearby Mormon Island Memorial Cemetery. Here were reburied the pioneers whose graves were flooded when the lake was formed by Folsom Dam.
OTHER TIDBITS: Well that doesn’t say much! Would it interest you to know that this was California’s most ethnically and racially diverse community outside of San Francisco? It had first been mined by Mormons, then abandoned and rediscovered in 1849 by African-American miners from the east. African-American, white, Chinese, Spanish, Mexican, and Portuguese miners worked together here until the 1850s when new state laws started to limit the rights of African-Americans in California. White-owned businesses started to move in around 1849, and violence against African-American residents ultimately white-washed the town by 1854. The whole town was deserted by 1860 and flooded by Folsom Lake starting in 1955! |
| How can I Help the Helpers? | HERE’S HOW:
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| Where is this place? | LISTED DIRECTIONS: Folsom Lake State Recreation Area Green Valley Rd 0.1 mi NE of El Dorado-Sacramento County line 4 mi NE of Folsom, CA 95762 ANNOTATIONS: From Los Angeles: ~411mi (662km) — 6.9hrs |
| When should I go? | Whenever the mood strikes you! |
