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NO. 571 SALMON FALLS - These historic mining towns, and other mining camps of the gold rush era now inundated by Folsom Lake, are commemorated by the nearby Mormon Island Memorial Cemetery. Here were reburied the pioneers whose graves were flooded when the lake was formed by Folsom Dam.
Location
Folsom Lake State Recreation Area, Green Valley Rd, 0.1 mi NE of El Dorado-Sacramento County line, 4 mi NE of Folsom (On the north side of the intersection of Green Valley Road and Shadowfax Lane)
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Notes
In 1954, the Army Corp of Engineers relocated the graves from #571 Salmon Falls to the Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery.
CHL No. 571 Salmon Falls - state plaque missing
CHL #571 Salmon Falls relocated to CHL #569 Mormon Island