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NO. 570 NEGRO HILL - 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 No. 570 Negro Hill to the Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery. Negro Hill Cemetery relocation: ---- 38°41'53.1"N 121°06'33.6"W
CHL #570 Negro Hill marker - The state plaque is missing.
No. 570 Negro Hill graves were relocated to CHL #569 Mormon Island