Fiddletown is an unincorporated community in Amador County, California. The town sits at 1,687 feet (511 m) above sea level and the current population is about 200. It located at 38.50475° N 120.75884° W. The town is registered as California Historical Landmark #35 and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NPS-78000655). Amador County is a county located in the Sierra Nevada of California. ... For considerations of sea level change, in particular rise associated with possible global warming, see sea level rise. ... California Historical Landmarks (CHLs) are buildings, structures, sites, or places in the state of California that have been determined to have statewide historical significance by meeting at least one of the criteria listed below: approved for designation by the County Board of Supervisors or the City/Town Council in whose... The National Register of Historic Places is the USAs official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects worthy of preservation. ...

The town was first settled by Missourians in 1849 and in the 1850s served as a trading center for a number of mining camps in the area. The town also had one of the largest Chinese communities in the state (over 2,000 in the 1860 census). Missouri, named after the Missouri Siouan Indian tribe meaning canoe, is a Southern U.S. state in the United States with Jefferson City as its capital. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Events and Trends Technology Production of steel revolutionised by invention of the Bessemer process Benjamin Silliman fractionates petroleum by distillation for the first time First transatlantic telegraph cable laid First safety elevator installed by Elisha Otis Science Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, putting forward the theory of evolution... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ...

At the time of its founding, placer mining was the most popular mining technique, which is heavily dependent on water. The local water source, Dry Creek, ran dry during the summer months, during which time the miners were said to be "fiddling around," thus the name. However, one local citizen was embarrassed to be known as the "Man from Fiddletown" and successfully lobbied to have the name changed to Oleta (after his daughter) in 1878. After his death in 1932, town residents petitioned to have it restored to Fiddletown. A sluice box used in placer mining Placer mining (pronounced plass-er) is a open-pit or open-cast form of mining by which certain valuable minerals are extracted from the earth without tunneling. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ...

External links

• Fiddletown web site
• Fiddletown Preservation Society
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Communities of Amador County, California
	County seat: Jackson Incorporated cities Amador City | Ione | Jackson | Plymouth | Sutter Creek Unincorporated places Buena Vista | Drytown | Fiddletown | Pine Grove | Pioneer | Volcano