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Calaveras County, California
Calaveras County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
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Named: The meaning of the word calaveras is "skulls." This county
takes its name from the Calaveras River, which was reportedly so designated by
an early explorer when he found, on the banks of the stream, many skulls of
Indians who had either died of famine or had been killed in tribal conflicts
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Neighboring Counties:
- Northeast: Alpine County
- Southeast: Tuolumne County
- Southwest: Stanislaus County; San Joaquin County
- Northwest: Amador County
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
act locally."
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Penn Foster High School
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