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El Dorado County, California
El Dorado County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
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Named: El Dorado -- the far-famed fabulous region of genial clime and
never-fading verdure, where gold and precious stones are as common as rocks and
pebbles, where wines gently flow from fountains. The name, meaning "the gilded
one" in Spanish, appears at the beginning of the 16th century as that of a
mythical Indian chief who was said to have been covered with gold dust during
the performance of religious rites. When the discovery of gold by James W.
Marshall at Coloma in January 1848 became known to the world, California, and
particularly that section where gold was discovered, was called "El Dorado."
From this fact the county received its name. State & County QuickFacts:
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Neighboring Counties:
- East: Douglas County, Nev.
- Southeast: Alpine County
- Southwest: Amador County; Sacramento County
- Northwest: Placer 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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