Calaveras County, CA

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CALAVERAS COUNTY, California. Area, ------ square miles. Seat of justice ------ . Pop. in 1850, 16,884. (Fanning's, 1853)

Place Unit Type
County
Containing Unit
California

Calaveras County, California (Hayward)

Gazetteer/Almanac
Calaveras County, Ca., c. h. at Double Springs, otherwise called Pleasant Valley. In the mountains E. of the San Joaquin, between Dry Creek of the Moquelumne and the Stanislaus River.
John Hayward, Gazetteer of the United States of America… (Philadelphia: James L. Gihon, 1854), 312.
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The "Calaveras Skull" is found and touted as proof of pre-historic Californians. Science/Technology
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