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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The first set of U.S. Senators from California (1850) were abolitionist John Fremont and Southern sympathizer William Gwin. The latter later owned the Gwin Mine near what today is Paloma.
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