" Georgetown and its Riches "

El Dorado County — Coloma, Placerville, Georgetown, Cool, Fairplay & vicinity
El Dorado county was one of the most prosperous of the mining counties. It is estimated that the vast product of the gold-fields of California at least $100,000,000 was taken out here. Scattered all over the Union are hundreds of men, now rolling in wealth, who made their “stake” in the placers of El Dorado county. The industrious thousands who once swarmed in these canyons, digging for the precious metal, have vanished, leaving ravished stream-beds and abandoned camps, as the only monuments of their presence.
"There were no distinctions in society; dress did not indicate wealth or poverty. The most filthy and ragged looking ‘’ombre’’ might have the biggest pile." Luther Melanchthon Schaeffer, 1851