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Jun242014

1859 Historic National Hotel Jamestown, California gold country

California Gold Country is a strip of land about 120 miles long north to south in the Sierra Nevada foothills and about five miles wide. Many of the oldest hotels in California opened during the 1850s Gold Rush era still operate today. The Gold Country region of Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties offer dozens of small towns…

Jun022014

Small towns, old hotels and new wineries in Calaveras County

by Ric Garrido

As part of a media tour two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit several family-run wineries for tastings and I photographed several historic hotels and hotels in historic buildings in different towns across the Gold Country of Highway 49. Many of the hotels are buildings that date back to the 1850s. Many of…