El Dorado County Historical Society & Fountain and Tallman Museum

10/11/2026

Greetings, fellow history enthusiasts!

Welcome to this week's edition of Deserve to Preserve, where we celebrate El Dorado County's remarkable historic resources and the stories that continue to shape our community. Today, we highlight the Planter's House Hotel in Shingle Springs, a landmark that served travelers, miners, freight haulers, and local residents for more than 80 years before its destruction by fire in 1933.

The Planter's House was built in 1852 by R. S. Wakefield, who had previously operated the Missouri House, a log building occupying the same site. It was among the earliest hotels established in Shingle Springs, following the Shingle Spring House in 1850 and the Missouri House in 1851. Located just east of the springs along the old Overland Emigrant Road, now Mother Lode Drive, the hotel occupied a prominent position along one of the principal routes connecting Sacramento with Placerville and the mountain settlements beyond.

In its early years, the hotel stood amid the growing commercial activity of the Gold Rush. Two blacksmith shops operated nearby, and a steam-powered sawmill owned by A. P. Catlin and S. C. Cutler stood behind the property. Lumber from the mill reportedly commanded $150 per thousand board feet following Sacramento's devastating fire of 1852. In 1857, Shingle Springs' first store opened near the Planter's House, serving the miners working the surrounding hills and gulches.

The hotel's importance grew considerably with the arrival of the Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad in 1865. Shingle Springs became a major freight and transportation hub, with goods arriving by rail before continuing eastward by wagon. Stagecoaches stopped at the Planter's House to change horses, while travelers and teamsters found meals and accommodations.

The railroad's arrival also presented an opportunity for the hotel's proprietor, Daniel T. Hall. According to Paolo Sioli's 1883 history of El Dorado County, Hall was among those promoting the town's development, offering surveyed lots for sale as merchants and residents rushed to establish themselves near the new railroad terminus. The Planter's House was therefore connected not only to the movement of people and freight but also to the commercial development of Shingle Springs.

Beyond its accommodations, the hotel was a popular center of entertainment. Its saloon and dance hall drew residents from Placerville, Diamond Springs, El Dorado, and Clarksville. Dances featuring Gray's Band attracted considerable crowds, and the hotel became particularly well known for the hospitality and suppers provided under the management of Hall and his wife. The band's leader was remembered for sometimes serving the dual role of musician and dance caller.

The hotel's history was not without drama. In an account published by the Mountain Democrat in November 1933, an incident was recalled in which an adversary fired a shot at D. T. Hall through the doorway while he stood behind the hotel's desk. Hall survived the encounter and continued managing the establishment. Following his death, his widow continued its operation. Later proprietors included Hi Barton, A. G. Small, and a man identified in the newspaper as "Dad" Harbin.

The Planter's House also served the community on more solemn occasions. Methodist minister John W. Winkley, who traveled throughout El Dorado County conducting religious services, recalled officiating at a funeral in the hotel's lobby before the deceased was taken for burial in a nearby mountain cemetery. His account illustrates how such establishments accommodated community activities extending well beyond their commercial purposes.

A historic burial ground bearing the Planter's House name also survives in county cemetery records. Known as the Planters House or Margona-Hall Cemetery, it is located near Mother Lode Drive and Sunset Lane and is another surviving connection to the community's earliest years.

As the railroad eventually extended to Placerville in 1888, Shingle Springs lost much of its importance as a transportation terminus, and the hotel's business gradually declined. Nevertheless, the Planter's House continued to operate and remained a recognizable community landmark.

In December 1914, the El Dorado Republican and Weekly Nugget reported that improvements were underway at the hotel. Its longtime ballroom, previously located on the upper floor, was being repaired, with plans to relocate it to ground level. The newspaper described the Planter's House as perhaps one of the oldest buildings in El Dorado County, recognizing its connection to the region's earliest history.

By the early 1930s, the hotel had ceased operations. The property, then owned by Fred Dixon, was occupied by caretaker Harry Baxter. On Monday, November 20, 1933, fire destroyed the Planter's House Hotel. The blaze consumed the historic building, its dance hall, adjoining structures, and Baxter's automobile. Reports circulated suggesting the fire might have been deliberately set, but Sheriff Charles Wood stated that his office had received no complaint or information supporting those suspicions. The property was reportedly uninsured.

The fire brought an end to one of the oldest establishments in Shingle Springs. The Planter's House had witnessed the community's beginnings as a Gold Rush settlement, its growth into a railroad and freight center, and the changes in transportation that eventually diminished the hotel's original purpose. For decades, it had been a place where travelers rested, business was conducted, celebrations were held, and residents gathered.

Although the hotel itself has disappeared, its history remains documented in contemporary newspapers, historical accounts, and the recollections of those who knew it.

The Planter's House reminds us how much of El Dorado County's history is tied to places that no longer stand, and why preserving the historic resources that remain is so important.

Do you have historical photographs, family stories, or information about the Planter's House or early Shingle Springs? We invite you to share them and help us preserve this important chapter of our county's history.

10/10/2026

Spend a day immersed in Tahoe history. Visit the Osgood Toll House at the museum and come tour the cemetery at 11am. Learn about the connection between the Osgoods and the cemetery. Make reservations now!

10/09/2026

Step into the past next weekend with our partners at Save the Graves! 🍂🕰️

Join us for their annual flagship living history event and fundraiser, where the incredible stories of our community's boldest and most tenacious pioneers will come to life. Throughout the day, costumed actors will perform captivating graveside vignettes, sharing the real history and legacies of the people who helped shape our region.
It is the absolute perfect fall family activity! Best of all, your attendance makes a direct impact. Every ticket sold raises critical funds to preserve and beautify our historic cemeteries through interpretive signage, vital headstone repairs, and securing headstones for the previously unmarked graves of our veterans.

Come celebrate local history with us!

🗓️ Saturday, October 17
⏰ 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
🎟️ Tickets: $15 for Adults | Kids 17 & Under are FREE!

Here in El Dorado County, history is everywhere we look, and some places we don’t. It’s also beneath our feet, in local cemeteries. These hallowed grounds have been ravaged by

10/05/2026

In the summer of 1879, a sensational claim took Placerville by storm. The Mountain Democrat reported that a visiting German physician had stumbled upon a hidden cave near Squaw Hollow Creek containing ancient Aztec mummies, perfectly preserved in suspended animation and waiting to be brought back to life.

It was a massive newspaper hoax, but it played perfectly into a very real, very bizarre obsession of the era. During the 19th century, Victorians were so captivated by Egyptology that they actually hosted "mummy unwrapping" parties, using smuggled mummies as parlor entertainment.

Join our neighbors at the Post Discovery Center to discover how these strange historical threads connect at "The 1879 Squaw Hollow Sensation." Author and local historian Jill Kearney will dive into the bizarre story behind this 150-year-old local hoax. The presentation will be followed by a chilling, true-to-life re-creation of a 19th-century mummy unwrapping led by a local authority on macabre Victorian practices!

Event Details:
⚬ Date: Saturday, October 17
⚬ Time: 4:00 p.m.
⚬ Location: Post Discovery Center (inside the historic old post office building), 515 Main Street, Placerville
⚬ Tickets: $15
Seating is highly limited for this unique piece of local lore. Secure your tickets before they sell out here: https://www.edg1848.org/events/mummy-unwrapping

10/03/2026

Greetings, fellow history enthusiasts! Welcome to this week's edition of Deserve to Preserve, where we celebrate El Dorado County's remarkable historic resources and the stories that continue to shape our community. Today we highlight El Dorado County's Bergstrom pipe organ.

On June 2, 1883, the Pacific Rural Press published a notice titled “A New Bergstrom Organ.” Bergstrom & Co. had recently completed what the newspaper called a “very fine large organ” for the First Methodist Church of Oakland. The article described its great, swell, and pedal divisions, eighteen stops, a Backus water motor that powered the bellows, and exposed pipes decorated in gold and colors to complement the church interior.

Its builder, John Eric Bergstrom, was a Swedish immigrant and one of the comparatively few important organ builders working on the nineteenth-century Pacific Coast. Of the many instruments produced by Bergstrom and his firm, only two substantially intact examples are known to survive today, both in California. The other is a smaller 1897 organ, originally built for Sonoma's First Congregational Church, that was later preserved and restored and now stands at Jacuzzi Family Vineyards in Sonoma.

The El Dorado County Bergstrom organ stands approximately 22 feet high. Its case incorporates Dominican mahogany, a prized and difficult-to-obtain wood in the nineteenth century, together with old-growth redwood. Its decorated façade pipes remain in place, and behind them is the intricate system of wind chests, pipes, linkages, and other hand-built mechanisms that once gave the instrument its voice.
The organ came to Placerville in 1904, when the Methodist congregation purchased it for a reported $2,500 and installed it in the brick Methodist Episcopal Church at Main Street and Cedar Ravine. Its arrival in El Dorado County came less than two years before the great earthquake and fires of 1906 devastated the Bay Area and destroyed many of the magnificent pipe organs of the era.

Placerville's Methodist congregation itself reached back to the Gold Rush years. After outgrowing its first small wooden church, the congregation built a substantial brick church at Main and Cedar Ravine. Farther west along Main Street stood Placerville's Presbyterian Church, near today's WealthGuard offices, Indian Pizza, formerly Round Table Pizza, and the surrounding parking area. By the 1940s, changing attendance and circumstances led the two congregations to join together. In 1944 they formed the El Dorado County Federated Church, and a new sanctuary was completed on Thompson Way in 1953.

The old Presbyterian church was eventually lost, and the brick Methodist church at Main and Cedar Ravine was later sold and demolished. Neither survives. The Bergstrom, however, did.

As the old brick church prepared to come down, parishioners Neal and Adele Sisson took on the painstaking task of saving the enormous instrument inside. They dismantled it piece by piece, marked its thousands of components, transported them to the Fairgrounds, and helped reconstruct the organ there. It was a community effort that brought together the Federated Church, the El Dorado County Fair Association, El Dorado County government, the El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce, and the El Dorado County Historical Society, then led by president John Hassler.

By 1960, the Bergstrom had been reassembled at the Fairgrounds, where the building that housed it became known as the Organ Room. The Fair Association formally recognized Neal and Adele Sisson with a certificate of appreciation for their public service. That August, The Mountain Democrat reported that the old organ was once again ready to pour out its “full-throated tunes for future generations.”
More than six decades later, a professional examination has helped clarify just how significant the instrument they preserved really is. In 2026, the Bergstrom was examined by specialists working with Schoenstein & Co. of Benicia, one of California's historic pipe-organ authorities and widely regarded as one of the preeminent organ firms in the Western United States. Schoenstein's own history dates to 1877.

Their assessment described the Placerville and El Dorado County instrument as being of “rare historical significance.” They found it “remarkably complete” and “in restorable condition.” Schoenstein also estimated that constructing an organ equal to the Bergstrom today would cost at least $1.37 million. That figure is not an auction estimate or suggested selling price. Rather, it offers some perspective on what it would take to reproduce an instrument of comparable scale, materials, craftsmanship, and complexity.

Its historical value is harder to express in dollars. For more than 120 years, the Bergstrom has been woven into the story of El Dorado County, from Placerville's Methodist congregation and the formation of the Federated Church to the changing landscape of Main Street, the Fairgrounds, and the community effort that saved the organ when its longtime church home disappeared. It is also a public asset belonging to the people of El Dorado County, part of a shared historical inheritance that has been preserved and passed forward for generations.

Perhaps the most striking part of the Bergstrom's history is not simply its age. It is how many times people have chosen to make sure that it survived. That is what makes the photographs of Neal and Adele Sisson working among its pipes and timbers so compelling. They show people caring for something that had already passed through the hands of earlier generations and making a deliberate choice to pass it forward again.

The Bergstrom's history is still being written, and the care taken with its next chapter will become part of that history too. It remains remarkably complete and restorable, one of only two substantially intact Bergstrom organs known to survive today and a rare example of nineteenth-century California craftsmanship with more than a century of El Dorado County history.

In 1960, The Mountain Democrat looked ahead to the “future generations” who might someday inherit what the Sissons and their community had worked so hard to preserve.

Those generations are us.

09/27/2026

Greetings, fellow history enthusiasts!

Welcome to this week’s edition of Deserve to Preserve, where we celebrate El Dorado County’s remarkable historic places and the stories that continue to shape our community. Today, we highlight Coloma’s Vineyard House. With fall officially here, we thought we’d mix a little spooky season with some very real El Dorado County history.

Standing across from Coloma’s Pioneer Cemetery is one of the county’s most storied historic homes: the Vineyard House. For decades, stories of unexplained footsteps, voices, apparitions, and other mysterious happenings have surrounded the old house. Whether those tales belong to the supernatural is a question we’ll happily leave to others. The documented history is fascinating enough on its own.

The story begins in the 1850s with Martin Allhoff, an early Coloma vintner who established a vineyard, w**ery, and distillery along Cold Springs Road. After Allhoff’s death in 1867, his widow, Louisa, married Scottish immigrant and longtime Coloma hotelier Robert Chalmers in 1869.

Chalmers greatly expanded the w**e operation while remaining deeply involved in the civic life of Coloma and El Dorado County. He served as Coloma’s postmaster and, in 1871–1872, represented El Dorado County in the California State Assembly. By 1871, contemporary accounts described his “mammoth w**e cellars,” some 85 acres of vines, and production reaching tens of thousands of gallons of w**e and brandy. His w**es, ports, sherries, brandies, cordials, and celebrated Catawba bitters earned recognition at agricultural fairs throughout the 1870s.

In 1878, Robert and Louisa built the grand Vineyard House, which served not only as their home but also as a hotel and social gathering place.

The house itself is a remarkable survivor of 19th-century Coloma. Its large wood-frame form reflects a distinctly California Gold Country interpretation of late-Victorian architecture, with Italianate influences visible in its tall, narrow windows, decorative bracketed eaves, and expansive veranda. Its relatively simple gabled form, dressed with fashionable Victorian details, illustrates how broader architectural trends were adapted in California’s foothill communities. Historic photographs even preserve details that have changed over time, including shutters once fitted to many of its windows.

Just as important is its setting. The Vineyard House remains closely connected to the landscape that gave it meaning: remnants of the early w**ery, Cold Springs Road, the surrounding hillsides, and the Pioneer Cemetery directly across the road. Together, these surviving features help us understand the house not merely as an old building, but as part of the working and social landscape of 19th-century Coloma.

Louisa’s 1913 obituary remembered the dances, elaborate suppers, and visitors who came from throughout El Dorado County, a reminder that this supposedly “haunted house” was once among Coloma’s liveliest places. An early El Dorado County historical marker even records the tradition that former President Ulysses S. Grant spoke from the Vineyard House balcony.

Robert Chalmers died in 1881. Today, Robert and Louisa Chalmers and members of their family, including children, rest together in the Coloma Pioneer Cemetery, in a family plot on the knoll directly across the road from the Vineyard House. From their graves, the old house can still be seen through the trees, a poignant physical connection between the family and the place they helped shape. The Pioneer Cemetery itself is one of Coloma’s most evocative historic places and is well worth a respectful visit if you haven’t explored it before.

And it is around Robert’s final years that documented history begins to mingle with folklore.

What we can say is that the Vineyard House has witnessed nearly 150 years of Gold Rush history, early California w**emaking, hospitality, celebration, family tragedy, and generations of stories, some carefully documented and others passed from person to person until history and legend became intertw**ed.

Today, the Vineyard House is once again a private residence, so please admire this remarkable survivor respectfully from public areas and never enter the property without permission.

🎥 Want a little more Vineyard House for spooky season? We’re also including links to our friends at Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park and the Center for Sacramento History, both of whom have produced some fun video explorations of the original Vineyard House property and the stories surrounding it. California State Parks maintains an official Marshall Gold Discovery YouTube resource, while the Center for Sacramento History preserves extensive KOVR and KCRA television-film collections—including Vineyard House footage.

Center for Sacramento History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYXKmKsC5rw
Marshall Gold Discovery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpISaRRAEBg

And if this has put you in the mood for more of El Dorado County’s darker history… join us in October!

🕯️ "Whispers of the Past: Macabre Tales of Placerville’s Coloma-Spring Street Historic District" returns October 23 & 24 with an entirely new route through one of Placerville’s oldest neighborhoods.

This is not a ghost tour. Like the story of the Vineyard House, Whispers of the Past is grounded in archives, historic newspapers, public records, and the documented lives of real people, with a few carefully identified pieces of local lore and unexplained experience along the way. This year we’ll explore stories of tragedy, misfortune, scandal, unusual accidents, untimely deaths, the former Placerville Sanatorium, Union Cemetery, historic homes, and more.

El Dorado County Historical Society 2026 Tour Times:
🏮 Friday, October 23 — 5:30 PM Evening Lantern Tour
Saturday, October 24 — 11:00 AM, 1:00 PM & 4:00 PM
🏮 Saturday, October 24 — 6:00 PM Evening Lantern Tour

Tickets are $20 for EDCHS members and $30 for non-members. Departures are limited in size, tickets are moving quickly, and previous Whispers of the Past tours have sold out—so we recommend reserving your place early, particularly for the lantern tours.

🎟️ Tickets, tour details & FAQs: edchs.org/events

Happy spooky season from the El Dorado County Historical Society! Sometimes history has more than enough mystery of its own. 🕯️🍂

09/26/2026

🍎 Heritage of Harvest: The Origins of the Apple Hill Growers Association is officially open! 🍂

Long before "farm-to-fork" became a trendy catchphrase, El Dorado County farmers were diligently building what would become a premier agritourism model for the rest of Northern California. The El Dorado County Historical Society is proud to partner with the Apple Hill Growers Association to share this history at the Fountain & Tallman Museum, open now through November 12th.

This exhibit goes beyond the orchards. It looks at how local orchardists survived the devastating pear blight of the 1960s by completely reinventing our agricultural landscape. You will see the story of how these farms diversified over the decades to offer c***r, baked goods, Christmas trees, you-pick berries and flowers, pumpkin patches, w**e, craft b**r, and outdoor recreation like hiking trails, hayrides, fishing, and even train rides.

We are especially excited to share rare 1960s and 70s 8mm footage of the Camino, Cable & Northern Railroad steaming right through the Apple Hill orchards. Visitors can also watch original film of the very first ranches and the early smorgasbord gatherings that put Apple Hill on the map.

The museum's second floor hosts a display of newly scanned images and ephemera from the El Dorado County Historical Museum archives. Visitors can also explore vintage artifacts from pioneer Apple Hill bakeshops and w**eries, alongside recorded interviews with the association's founding members.

Come check it out and celebrate the foresight, vision, tenacity, and resilience of our local growers.

📍 Location: Fountain & Tallman Museum (524 Main St, Placerville)
🗓️ Dates: September 20 to November 12, 2026
🕒 Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
🎟️ Admission: Free!

09/19/2026

Greetings Fellow History Enthusiasts!

This fall, step into the shadows of Placerville's past and join us for "Whispers of the Past: Macabre Tales of Placerville's Coloma-Spring Street Historic District." Discover the hidden side of our local history on a walking tour meticulously researched and grounded in real people, actual places, and unsettling realities drawn straight from the archives.

We will guide you from the edge of downtown through one of the city's oldest residential neighborhoods, ending on Bee Street. Along the way, we will explore documented stories of tragedy, scandal, and untimely deaths tied to sites like the former Placerville Sanatorium and Union Cemetery. Several residents will also share unexplained experiences connected to their historic homes.

🎟️ TICKETS & PRICING (Available at edchs.org/events)
⚬ Non-Member Tickets: $30
⚬ EDCHS Member Tickets: $20
(Discounted tickets can only be purchased through the exclusive links emailed to current members. Not a member yet? Join today at EDCHS.ORG to get your links!)

📅 TOUR SCHEDULE
Friday, October 23
🔦 5:30 PM (Evening Lantern Tour)
Saturday, October 24
☀️ 11:00 AM | ☀️ 1:00 PM | 🍂 4:00 PM | 🔦 6:00 PM (Evening Lantern Tour)

⚠️ Space is strictly limited and previous tours have sold out. Head over to edchs.org/events to read our full FAQ and secure your tickets today.

Thank you for supporting the conservation and celebration of El Dorado County's history. We look forward to seeing you on the tour!

09/07/2026

Greetings, history lovers! 👋

This weekend, we invite you to join our Main Street neighbors at the Post Discovery Center for a fascinating evening with History Expeditions Group!

On Sunday, September 13, at 5:00 PM, Bob Crowley of History Expeditions will present “Crossing the Sierra Nevada: John C. Frémont’s Perilous 1844 Winter Expedition” at 515 Main Street in Placerville.

History Expeditions takes a unique, hands-on approach to exploring the past, combining historical research with expeditions that retrace the routes and experiences of those who came before. This year, they are doing something especially exciting: this very week, the group is retracing John C. Frémont’s extraordinary 1844 winter crossing of the Sierra Nevada.

And you can follow their progress in real time! History Expeditions has created a special online hub where you can watch their journey unfold by following the “blue dot” on their digital map. When they come to Placerville to speak with us on Sunday, they will be fresh off their journey, having just retraced the route they will be discussing.

The site also features primary-source research, original stories and articles, short films, and fascinating material about Frémont, his Second Expedition, and his wife, Jessie Benton Frémont.

👉 It’s all in one place: https://historyexphub.org/

We encourage you to visit the site, follow along, and see where the expedition takes them. It’s a fun and informative way to experience this remarkable piece of history as it unfolds!

- Sunday, September 13, 2026
- 5:00 PM
- Post Discovery Center, 515 Main Street, Placerville
- Suggested donation: $8 at the door

If you enjoy Sierra Nevada history, exploration, and stories of extraordinary endurance, make plans to join our neighbors at the Post Discovery Center (El Dorado Gold 1848). We hope to see you there!

09/02/2026

Greetings, fellow history enthusiasts! Welcome to this week’s edition of Deserve to Preserve, where we celebrate El Dorado County’s remarkable historic places and the stories that continue to shape our community. Today, we feature the circa 1860 Skinner W**ery and Distillery near Rescue, California. More than 160 years later, modern maps still identify the area as “Skinners.”

El Dorado County has a rich viticultural legacy. Among the county’s earliest vintners was Scottish immigrant and Gold Rush miner James Skinner, whose name remains closely tied to the history of w**emaking in the Green Valley and Rescue area.
Skinner arrived in the United States in 1842 and came to California a decade later, seeking his fortune in the Gold Rush. After mining near Coloma, he used his earnings to acquire land in what became known as Green Valley, near present-day Rescue. Around 1860–61, he planted a vineyard and began producing w**e, brandy, and vinegar.

The location was no accident. Skinner’s property stood along the busy Folsom-Coloma Road, a major transportation route through the foothills that later became part of the Pony Express route. His w**ery and distillery were positioned to take advantage of the steady stream of miners, freighters, travelers, and local residents moving through the area.

Skinner constructed an extensive w**emaking operation from local stone and brick. The w**ery stood on the north side of the road, while the distillery was located across the road, with pipes connecting the two buildings. Beneath the w**ery was a substantial stone w**e cellar capable of holding approximately 15,000 gallons.

James Skinner died in 1885, but the family business continued under his son George. By the late 1880s, George had expanded the operation and was purchasing grapes from other local growers. A 1891 viticultural directory reported that he owned 50 acres of bearing w**e grapes that produced 100 tons of grapes in 1889.

The w**ery and distillery eventually disappeared, but the stone cellar remained and survives to this day. After the historic property fell into disuse, portions of the site were incorporated into a nursery. Today, the surviving cellar stands as one of the few physical reminders of the scale and sophistication of El Dorado County’s early commercial w**e industry.

More than a century later, the Skinner family returned to the county in an extraordinary rediscovery of their own history. In 2006, James Skinner’s descendants learned of the family connection while traveling through the Sierra foothills. They traced their family history to the Skinner pioneer cemetery and the site of the original w**ery, eventually reestablishing Skinner Vineyards & W**ery in El Dorado County.

The result is a rare continuity between past and present: a family whose roots in El Dorado County’s w**e industry reach back to the Gold Rush era is once again producing w**e in the foothills. Can you imagine discovering your family’s viticultural legacy, only to reestablish operations in the same place more than 100 years after the original w**ery had closed?

In June 2025, the El Dorado County Historical Society had the privilege of bringing that history to life during our sold-out "Pioneer Vintners of the Sierra Foothills: The Origins of El Dorado County W**e" fundraiser. Descendants of both the Skinner and Zentgraf families joined us, sharing family stories while guests explored the circa 1861 Skinner w**e cellar and learned about the people who helped establish viticulture in El Dorado County.

The Skinner cellar is a surviving piece of the county’s agricultural, industrial, and immigrant history, and a tangible reminder that El Dorado County’s w**e story began generations ago.

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