EL DORADO, EL DORADO CO., CALIFORNIA

The plaque below reads:

EL DORADO

El Dorado, meaning "The Gilded One", was first known as Mud Springs from the boggy quagmire the cattle and horses made of a nearby watering place.

Originally an important camp on the old Carson Emigrant Trail. By 1849-50 it had become the center of a mining district and the crossroads for freight and stage lines. At the height of the Rush its large gold production supported a population of several thousand.

HISTORICAL LANDMARK NO. 486

California State Park Commission

Monument base erected by the Mother Lode Lions Club
of Diamond Springs and El Dorado.