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Article: Treasures in the heart of Gold Country. (California)
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- Sunset
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- November 1, 1993
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 Sunset Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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SEVEN HISTORIC TOWNS INVITE A LATE-AUTUMN GETAWAY
State Highway 49 slices a nearly 300-mile route through California's Gold Country, in the Sierra foothills. If you were to bisect the highway, you'd find its midpoint somewhere near Placerville. But if you look just south of Placerville, you can find the heart of the Gold Country in seven towns clustered along State 49. Visit over a quiet November weekend, and you can still hear the rhythms of history in the thump-thump of footsteps on the well-worn boardwalks of Amador City, in the roar of the furnace at a foundry in Sutter Creek, and in the pocketa-pocketa of an ore-stamping mill replica at Jackson. What you won't ...
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