Federated Church has been an important local institution for the last 173 years. It began life as a Methodist Episcopal Church, right here in Placerville in 1851. A guy named Frank Goyan donated the land and went to San Francisco to purchase building materials not available locally. Beams and studs were hand cut from local […]
Category: Cemetery History
Placerville Old City Cemetery
One of Placerville’s oldest, most historic, and most tormented cemeteries lies directly above the shoe repair shop at the west end of Main Street and provides a great view of downtown. For many years this important cultural resource was a disgrace: vandalized, overgrown and trash strewn. The cemetery has a long history of abuse. As […]
Placerville Uppertown Cemetery
In the 1850s and 60s, Upper Placerville, or “Uppertown”, as it was known, was an entirely separate community, outside the limits of Placerville. At one point there was a bus. Uppertown Cemetery is visible, just barely north of Highway 50, east of Mosquito Road. A staircase leads from street level into the bottom of the […]