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 Historic District Home Tour
MAY 2025 (Date TBD) - Pioneer Vintners of the Sierra Foothills: The Origins of El Dorado County Wine
JUNE 2025 (Date TBD) - A Legacy Etched in Stone: Historic Masonry Structures of El Dorado
JULY 2025 (Date TBD) - EDCHS Annual Summer Potluck
AUGUST 2025 (Date TBD) - Dress Your Finest, with William Hill Combellack
SEPTEMBER 2025 (Date TBD) - Caves, Kilns, and Quarries of El Dorado County
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
