The Placerville Mountain Democrat (known locally as the Mountain Democrat or simply the Democrat) is the newspaper of El Dorado County, California, based in Placerville and is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the State of California.
The Argus was housed in the Crescent City Building in Coloma, California, then the county seat.
In February 1854, Gelwicks bought the El Dorado Republican from Thomas Springer of Placerville and combined the two as the Mountain Democrat.
[3] During the 1850s, the newspaper reported news from steamships as they docked in San Francisco, California, after travel around Cape Horn – "usually about six months old.
[5] In 1935, the Placerville Republican merged with the Mountain Democrat.