Shutter Tree News Today

This little—very little—Calaveras County Gold Rush town beckons with history and haunts. Day trip yourself to Mokelumne Hill for a getaway.

Anne Cook, an artist in Mokelumne Hill, is working on what will be a multi-panel mosaic mural in Shutter Tree Park, which is named for an iron shutter that used to be on Chinese merchant Chung Kees store in the 1870s through the 1890s. Kee came to California from Guangdong Province, had a store in San Andreas in 1868, and his wife and 10-year-old son joined him in 1870. They moved to Mokelumne Hill in 1872, where Kee opened his store on East Center, and his wife bore him two more children...