El Dorado Gallery

Downtown Placerville
California

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Historic Main Street
Roughly west from Cedar Ravine

See also Placerville, Historic Buildings, and El Dorado Trail

The Bookery window reflects A Main Street Cafe

Gate by Tankersly's (since relocated)

Historic Cary House Hotel

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Thomas Kinkade Gallery

Kinkade Gallery, next to Cary House

Mural on Kinkade building in alley facing Cary House

Historical corner: Pony Express, Snowshoe Thompson, and the Ohio House, Main at Sacramento streets

Snowshoe Thompson and Ohio House markers

Pony Express marker and fire station bell
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This 1906 bridge, at the west end of town, used to carry Hwy. 50 traffic over Hangtown Creek as they entered or left town. Located almost imperceptibly between present-day Hwy. 50 and Forni Road

And here's the present-day weekend traffic on Hwy. 50
trying to enter, or pass by, the downtown area. (Remind me to take the back roads next time!)