Altaville

Calaveras County · 1 mile north of Angels Camp · location approximate

The history of Altaville is closely identified with the history of Angels Camp. Altaville has been the foundry town of Calaveras County with D. D. Demarest establishing a foundry there in 1854. Most of the stamp mills and a large part of the mining machinery erected in Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties were built at the Altaville Foundry. The townsite was established in 1873. A brick schoolhouse was built at Altaville in 1858.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.

Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)

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