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Calaveras County is one of the original counties of California. It
was created in 1850 at the time California became a state. In 1854
Amador County was formed from parts of it and in 1864 another was
sectioned off for Alpine county.
Calveras County takes it name from the word "skulls". Was named for
the river Calaveras which had been reported by the Spanish Explorer
Gabriel Moraga when he found many skulls of Native Americans on the
banks of the river. They had either died from famine or from tribal
wars.
Calaveras is located in the Gold Country of California. Mark Twain
set his famous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,
from here. Each year Calveras hosts its County Fair and Jumping Frog
Jubilee, featuring a frog jumping contest, to help celebrate Mark
Twains' story and the celebrated California red-legged frog, feared to
extinct from the county by 1969, and was rediscovered in 2003.
Calaverite, a gold telluride mineral is name for this county.
Angels Camp is the only incorporated city in the county.
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