Rescuing, Preserving, Researching, & Displaying our County’s Rich History
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Membership is open to all households, businesses, and organizations, whether current or former residents of El Dorado County, or whose families lived in El Dorado County. Donations can be made here on our website, at the Fountain & Tallman Museum in Placerville, and/or by emailing us at contact@edchs.org.
2025 EDCHS Events Calendar
JANUARY 25, 2025 - The Hangtown Fry: A Placerville Classic
FEBRUARY 22 & 23, 2025 - An Evening with 19th Century Placerville’s Beloved C.C. Peirce (Event to benefit the Federated Church's restoration fund for the historic M.E. Church)
MARCH 15, 2025 -Celebrating the Mother Road: The Lincoln Highway in El Dorado County
APRIL 19, 2025 - Placerville’s Bedford Avenue-Clay Street Historic District Home Tour
MAY 24, 2025 - Pioneer Vintners of the Sierra Foothills: The Origins of El Dorado County Wine
JUNE 14, 2025 - A Legacy Etched in Stone: Historic Masonry Structures of the Town of El Dorado
JULY 19, 2025 - 2nd Annual Quilt, Fiber Arts, & Historic Textile Show
JULY 25, 2025 - EDCHS Summer Potluck & Book Talk: "Tahoe Meadows: 1924-2024" with author Maggy Gorrill
AUGUST 2025 (Date TBD) - Dress Your Finest, with William Hill Combellack
SEPTEMBER 2025 (Date TBD) - Forging a New West: Experience the California Emigrant Trail
OCTOBER 2025 (Date TBD) - Hanging Justice: A Retrospective on the Last Legal Hangings in El Dorado County
OCTOBER 2025 (Date TBD) - Whispers of the Past - Macabre Tales of Placerville’s Bedford Avenue/Clay Street Historic District
DECEMBER 2025 (Date TBD) - The First Christmas in Coloma: A Pioneer Holiday Celebration
DECEMBER 2025 (Date TBD) - Annual EDCHS Holiday Luncheon
*All ticket sales are donations, the net proceeds of which support the EDCHS in its mission to honor the people who came before us by rescuing, preserving, researching, and displaying El Dorado County’s rich history, and to ensure that its significance will be appreciated for generations to come. Donations also help to support the operations and maintenance of the Society’s historic Fountain & Tallman Museum. If you would like to donate a different amount, please call us at our Fountain & Tallman Museum.
