by Jeffery W. McKelroy A short drive from Mokelumne Hill is the once infamous town of Placerville, better known at one time as Hangtown. Crime was a real problem in these remote mining towns and the citizens of Placerville were determined to keep the peace. In the mid-1880’s it was said that anything and everything…

by Jeffery W. McKelroy Traveling from Fort Bragg, California, if one heads east and into the mountains of Northern, California where gold was discovered in the 1840’s you will find the area dotted with ghost towns from the era of the Gold Rush. The winding roads must have been treacherous in those early days, but…

by Jeffery W. McKelroy When leaving San Francisco, Heading north to Fort Bragg, you will take the 101. It only takes three hours to get there if you stay on this route and the interstate will take you through wine country or you can hop over to the 1. The 1 is the coastal highway.…

by Jeffery W. McKelroy The southern route to San Francisco will take the traveler through the Mojave Desert, west on Interstate 40 where it links up with I-5 or “The 5” as Californians say. Once there you realize the complete change in weather from the hot arid deserts of Arizona and New Mexico to the…