Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Placer County Legal Records,
- Dates:
- 1851-1856
- Creators:
- Placer County (Calif.)
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Placer County Legal Records, California State Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Records of court cases, public administrator's reports, road overseer's reports, bonds.
- Biographical / historical:
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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.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1999
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Unrestricted.
- Terms of access:
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Please credit California State Library.
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:
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[Identification of item], Placer County Legal Records, California State Library.
- Location of this collection:
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900 N Street, Room 200, P.O. Box 942837Sacramento, CA 94237-0001, US
- Contact:
- (916) 654-0176