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Carson Trail - Placerville

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Placerville, called "Dry Diggins," was regarded in 1849 as a place where more gold had been raised than in any other part of California, and for emigrants such as P. C. Tiffany it was the point of a final stop, where wagons were unloaded and the gold mines were at last reached.
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