Descriptive Summary
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Placer County Legal Records,
Date (inclusive): 1851-1856
Box Number: 1372
Creator:
Placer County (Calif.)
Repository:
California State Library
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Unrestricted.
Conditions of Use
Please credit California State Library.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to California State Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing. Permission for publication is given on behalf of California State Library as the owner of the
physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by
the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Placer County Legal Records, California State Library.
Access Points
County government-California-Placer County-Records and correspondence
Court records--California--Placer County
Placer County (Calif.)--History-Sources
Contents
Records of court cases, public administrator's reports, road overseer's reports, bonds.
History
Placer County was created April 25, 1851, from parts of Sutter and Yuba Counties. It was an important mining county and was
given its name because placer mining was the principal method of mining for gold there. Auburn is the county seat.
Related Collections
California legal records