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For many years Calaveras slumbered, but beginning in the 1920s and continuing to the present, water storage and hydroelectric generation began to play major roles in the economy.

A General Mokelumne Hill Town History

The first non-natives to live in the area were reputedly French trappers who settled in Happy Valley in the 1830s. Leading the Gold Rush miners to the area was Captain Charles M.

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  • Mark Twain's frog rediscovered in county

    The California red-legged frog, made famous in Mark Twain’s 1865 "The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County" but feared absent from the county by 1969, was rediscovered in 2003.

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