El Dorado County Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
county in California, United States
About El Dorado County
"El Dorado" translates from Spanish as "the gilded/golden", an appropriate title for the county where the California Gold Rush was kicked off after a discovery at Sutter's Mill (near Coloma) on January 24, 1848. Over the next seven years 300,000 people would come to California seeking their fortunes.
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