Talk:Placerville, California

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New Seal?
If the seal has been updated as the article states, perhaps someone a bit more tech-savvy than me can replace it in the article? The one shown here depicts the noose and is thus the old one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.200.226.19 (talk) 18:12, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Commentary About Weekend Tourists in the Geography Section
Hey 75.85.174.151, us tourists don't like the traffic as much as you locals, but Wikipedia is probably not the best place for this discussion. Also unfortunately I just looked at the construction plans here (http://www.cityofplacerville.org/news/highway_50_improvement_project.asp), and while the road will be widened and a new bridge built, the existing 3 lights will merely be "retimed". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.12.143.52 (talk) 06:01, 21 February 2008 (UTC) I have read that the official elevation of Placerville is 1,866 ft above sea level, but the article here says over 2,100 ft? Why is that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.160.116.250 (talk) 00:14, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Contradiction about date when Placerville's name was changed from Hangtown
There is a contradiction in this article but I don't know what the correct information is. First one reads:

"Later in 1849, the town earned its most common historical name, "hangtown", due to the numerous hangings that had taken place there[3]. By 1850, the temperance league and a few local churches had begun to request that a more friendly name be bestowed upon the town. The name was not changed until 1854 when the City of Placerville was incorporated."

Then, a couple of paragraphs down, it says:

"Placerville is nicknamed "Old Hangtown" (due to the fact that many people were hanged in the late 1800s)[7]" (...)

Was it the mid-1800s or the late 1800s?

Also, is it true that the town was officially called Hangtown before it was named Placerville?

Mgh511 08:43, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it was.

But, also, Wiki declares Placerville to also originally be "Dry Diggin's" and "Blood and Guts" before women's league changed it to "Hangtown". In another paragraph, it looks like Women's League changed it from "Hangtown" to "Placerville". Which way IS it?68.231.184.217 (talk) 17:01, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Google Earth
I don't know how the whole thing works, but a dot appears for Placerville on Google Earth, referencing this article on wikipedia. The problem is that the dot on google earth is out of place, displaying it as being in Yuba County. The coords for the dot are 39 13 32.08 N 121 20 01 W   If someone could fix it it would be appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.31.89.149 (talk) 09:25, 17 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah, some other people noticed it was wrong, too. My edit should have fixed all of the coordinates.  It may take a little bit for Google to update the Earth data. Jason McHuff (talk) 13:10, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Hanging Platform
I've lived in Placerville for 11 years and and there is no platform to be seen in the location where the hangings took place. All accounts mention a tree, usually referred to as an "Oak" or "White Oak" and that tree was cut down and according to many sources (all web sites) the the stump of the tree is located in the "Cellar" "Under", "Crawlspace" of the Hangman's Tree Tavern which is now closed.

Out of about ~10 sites I looked at, only two mention a platform and only one (cite 11) says that you can still see it.

I believe that the author of the web page at http://www.usacitiesonline.com/cacountyplacerville.htm was most likely confused by the historic Bell Tower.

Here is link to the historic marker for the Hangman's Tree: http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=10504

On this page a letter written by one of the Mountain Democrat's (the local newspaper) staff writers debate the existence of the tree stump at all. http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=134273483881&topic=12648

Here is a better source (newspaper article) that writes that the Hangman's Tree tavern is built over the stump of the hanging tree: http://articles.latimes.com/1998/dec/27/local/me-57937 75.8.106.13 (talk) 23:07, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Placerville, California
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Placerville, California's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "spots": From John Augustus Raffetto:  From U.S. Route 50 in California:  

Reference named "history": From History of Los Angeles: Ríos-Bustamante, Antonio. Mexican Los Ángeles: A Narrative and Pictoral History, Nuestra Historia Series, Monograph No. 1. (Encino: Floricanto Press, 1992), 50–53. . From John Augustus Raffetto:  From International Standard Book Number:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 05:56, 2 November 2017 (UTC)