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Interstate 80 traffic in Placer County is heavily congested Monday morning after a pickup truck crashed into a construction zone, the California Highway Patr...
Ikeda’s California Country Market and Pie Shop off Interstate 80 in Auburn is gaining new exposure, with the three-generation family business being feature...
Weeks after a big rig driver fled after a freeway crash that left another driver dead, the California Highway Patrol Auburn division announced it made an arr...
A one-line order from the justices ends a monthlong fight over roughly 20,000 ballots the administration wanted set aside, closing out the case on the eve of...
Follow results for Napa County’s city councils, mayors, school and college boards and Measure B, plus the Thompson–Jones congressional race, California g...
A one-line order from the justices ends a monthlong fight over roughly 20,000 ballots the administration wanted set aside, closing out the case on the eve of...
Follow results for Napa County’s city councils, mayors, school and college boards and Measure B, plus the Thompson–Jones congressional race, California g...
Archaeological finds place the southwestern border of the prehistoric Martis people near Auburn, and the Nisenan, an offshoot of the Maidu, made the first permanent settlement in the area. In the spring of 1848 a party of French miners on their way to the gold fields at Coloma camped in what became the Auburn Ravine, among them Francois Gendron, Philibert Courteau and Claude Chana, and the young Chana found gold there on May 16, 1848. The three stayed to prospect, and the placer mining proved rich.
More about Auburn
The camp was first called the North Fork Dry Diggings, then Woods Dry Diggings after John S. Wood, who built a cabin and mined in the ravine. It grew into a mining camp and was officially named Auburn in August 1849 by miners from Auburn, New York. By 1850 it had about 1,500 people, and in 1851 it became the seat of Placer County. Mining moved up the ravine to the site of the present town, and in 1865 the Central Pacific Railroad, the western leg of the first transcontinental railroad, reached Auburn on its way east from Sacramento. The restored Old Town keeps houses and shops from the mid-19th century, and its oldest firehouse and post office date from the Gold Rush.
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Coordinates
38.9828000, -121.0938000
Local Time
8:38 AM America/Los_Angeles
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Placer County
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