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.^[1][2][3] It was first mentioned in a newspaper in 1851.^[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.^[5][6] However, it survived at least into the 1860s.^[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.^[9][10] Petersburg was founded in 1858.^[11]

See also

• List of ghost towns in California