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discovered by the Spaniards several centuries ago. Marysville 

 was first called Yubaville, and then named after Mrs. Mary 

 Covillaud, one of the founders of the place. Among the 

 pioneer miners of Calaveras County were Murphy, Angel, and 

 Carson, and they became the eponyms of the places where they 

 stopped, tirst called Murphy's Camp, Angel's Camp, and 

 Carson's Camp, now become permanent towns, which Jiave 

 discarded the " camp," and assumed the titles, " Murphy's," 

 " Angel's," etc. It is better to drop the s and the apostrophe, 

 as is sometimes done. " Yankee Jim's Camp " the surname 

 of " Jim " was never known to the general public is now 

 simply Yankee Jim. Messrs. Dovvnie, Weaver, and Heald 

 were the respective eponyms of Downieville, Weaverville, and 

 Healdsburg ; and Folsom, Gilroy, and Hollister were named 

 after the owners of the respective ranchos on which they were 

 laid out. The knowledge or supposition of rich diggings is 

 indicated by some of the names of towns, as Ophir, Gold Hill, 

 Quartzburg, Placerville, Oroville, Rich Bar, and Tin Cup. 

 Placerville was, in 1849, called Hangtown, because it was the 

 first place where any person was hanged by Lynch law. Oroville 

 is a compound of oro, the Spanish word for gold, and ville, 

 the French word for city. Tin Cup was so named because 

 the first miners there found the placers so rich that they meas- 

 sured their gold in pint tin cups. Many of the bars and camps 

 in the mining districts are named after the discoverers or first 

 settlers. There are Scott's Bar, Long's Bar, Kelly's Bar, 

 Kanaka Bar, Negro Bar, Chinese Camp, etc. Other places 

 are named from the native places of the first settlers, as Mis- 

 sissippi Bar, Ohio Bar, Iowa Hill, Michigan Bluffs, Illinoistown, 

 Alleghanytown, etc. Pine Log is so named because there was, 

 in early times, at that place a pine log across the South Fork of 

 the Stanislaus River, in such a position as to offer a very con- 

 venient crossing to miners. Some of 'the mining camps are 

 named from the tragic events which occurred there : thus, 

 there is a Murderer's Bar, a Dead Man's Bar, and a Dead Shot 



