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by Thomas Brown around 1849 after one of the heroines in Edward Bulwer-Lyttons drama The Last Days of Pompeii, but conflicting legends and sources for the name exist. During the days of the California gold rush, the miners knew the town by the names of "Bedbug" and "Freezeout." Unlike other communities in Amador County that were founded on gold mining,

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