Salmon Falls

El Dorado County · Folsom Lake State Recreation Area · location approximate

These historic mining towns, and other mining camps of the gold rush era, now inundated by Folsom Lake, are commemorated by the Mormon Island Memorial Cemetery, nearby. Here were reburied the pioneers whose graves were flooded, when the lake was formed by the Folsom Dam. Their memory is a reminder that what we are today we owe to those who came before us.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document.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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