Shutter Tree Park News Today

The entire Gold Rush-era town is a designated historic landmark

This little—very little—Calaveras County Gold Rush town beckons with history and haunts. Mokelumne Hill is a small town in Calaveras County with a Gold Rush origin story. Like many of the surrounding areas, the town peaked around 1850, boasting a diverse population of about 15,000. Today, 700 people call Mokelumne Hill home. The town covers just over 3 square miles. You can grab a free parking spot anywhere along Main Street and walk the attractions from there. It will likely take just an af...

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

After the long quiet summer of last year, music will return to Calaveras County Parks this year courtesy of the Calaveras Arts Council.

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...