Greasertown, California

Greasertown is a former gold rush settlement in Calaveras County, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of San Andreas, on the west side of the Calaveras River.

[4] When it caught fire the next year, "Spanish incendiaries" were blamed which so angered the locals that they drove out all the Hispanics they could find.

[7] It was submerged when the first Hogan Dam on the Calaveras River was built in the late 1920s.

[8] Greasertown was not renamed Petersburg; they were separate communities a mile apart.

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