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Dining in a Placerville Gold Mine

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If you're heading to the Sierra foothills this weekend, consider a stop in the small town of Placerville, founded during the Gold Rush. Settlers called it "Dry Diggins" because of the way miners carted dry soil to running water to separate the gold from the earth. Today, the town features some hidden relics from its gold-mining past.

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