Prairie City Cemetery

Prairie City in Sacramento County emerged in June 1853 about 21 miles from Sacramento and about 2 miles south of Negro Bar, now Folsom, with 40 frame and canvas houses already built and a mining water ditch under construction by the Natoma Water and Mining Company. By July 4, the town had 1500 inhabitants, including 15 families with women and children, and soon organized a mining district to set rules for miners before later becoming an election precinct. As placer deposits declined in 1854, many miners and their families left, though some remained after establishing homes and families there. The U.S. Post Office closed in early March 1866, and by the mid-1870s little of the original town survived, although the school district continued until about the mid-1880s. Even in 1901 the abandoned townsite was still called Prairie City though few people remained. The cemetery is the resting place of twelve people whose remains were discovered during construction of the Prairie City Road and Highway 50 interchange in May 1997 and then reinterred there.

Folsom, California · United States