Summersville (Tuolumne)

Tuolumne County · 1 mile northeast of Tuloumne · location approximate

Geographical center of East Belt Placer Gold Rush, 1856-57. First white settlers, the Franklin Summers family, arrived in 1854, and built log cabin half-mile west. James Blakely, in 1858, discovered first quartz lode, half mile east, naming it "Eureka,"which mine became nucleus of town of"Summersville,"later called"Carters"and finally"Tuolumne." Other mining towns lively in gold rush days were Long Gulch, two miles south, and Cherokee, two miles north.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document.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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