Greasertown is a former gold rush settlement in Calaveras County, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of San Andreas, on the west side of the Calaveras River. [1] [2] [3] It was first mentioned in a newspaper in 1851. [4] When it caught fire the next year, "Spanish incendiaries" were blamed which so angered the locals that they drove out all the Hispanics they could find. [5] [6] However, it survived at least until 1868. [7] It was submerged when the first Hogan Dam on the Calaveras River was built in the late 1920s. [8] Greasertown was not renamed Petersburg; they were separate communities a mile apart. [9] [10] Petersburg was founded in 1858. [11]
Greasertown is a former gold rush settlement in Calaveras County, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of San Andreas, on the west side of the Calaveras River. [1] [2] [3] It was first mentioned in a newspaper in 1851. [4] When it caught fire the next year, "Spanish incendiaries" were blamed which so angered the locals that they drove out all the Hispanics they could find. [5] [6] However, it survived at least until 1868. [7] It was submerged when the first Hogan Dam on the Calaveras River was built in the late 1920s. [8] Greasertown was not renamed Petersburg; they were separate communities a mile apart. [9] [10] Petersburg was founded in 1858. [11]