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The discovery of gold in 1848 brought tens of thousands of miners from around the world during the California Gold Rush. In addition, many more thousands came to provide goods and services to the miners. On April 25, 1851, the fast-growing county was formed from parts of Sutter and Yuba Counties with Auburn as the county seat. Placer County took its name from the Spanish word for sand or gravel...
Colfax Cemetery Colfax, Placer County, California, USA In the 1850's, during the California Gold Rush years, small mining towns in the Sierras began informally setting aside "Boot Hills" for burials. One such was in Illinoistown which later became known as Colfax in the 1860's with the completion of the Central Pacific Railroad and a visit by Vice President Schuyler Colfax. Land for a cemetery...
Rocklin Cemetery's earliest burials date back to the Gold Rush era of the 1850's; miners worked the Secret Ravine area (across Hwy 80) which is in close proximity to the burial grounds. In the early years the cemetery's land was state owned. In 1889 the burial grounds were granted to the Masons and Oddfellows Lodge, and then forty years later in 1929 the grounds became part of a public cemetery...
The first burials at Lincoln Cemetery were in the 1850's in the aftermath of the Gold Rush to California. For many years the cemetery was divided into sections for fraternal organizations (Oddfellows and Masonic), the Catholic cemetery, and the Women's Club section. These were incorporated between the 1920's and the 1950's into Lincoln Cemetery located at 1445 1st Street in the city of Lincol...
This project is for those buried in Roseville Public Cemetery District, Roseville, Placer County, California. The first burial in what would become the Roseville Public Cemetery occurred in 1861. The International Order of Odd Fellows maintained the cemetery -- then called the Odd Fellows Cemetery or IOOF Cemetery -- for approximately 50 years. In 1951 the cemetery's ownership was transferred ...