Site information:

Near intersection of Clinton Rd and E Clinton Rd, 1.0 mi SE of State Hwy 88

While there is still a town of Clinton, there is no historical site, as far as I know.

38.375954,-120.667176

Plaque information:

Private plaque

Plaque text:

Clinton

Prospectors in 1849 traveled from the Mokelumne River through Clinton on the way to the diggins in Volcano. In the early 1850's, the camp of Clinton became a market town, supplying the placer miners of the middle and southern forks of Jackson Creek, and later the shallow quartz mines around Irishtown and Clinton. As a stop on the stage road between Jackson, Aqueduct City and Volcano, Clinton grew and by 1852 had 100 clapboard and canvas houses and the areas only hotel. The camp was predominantly occupied by Mexican, Chilean and French miners. The Spagnoli family, proprietors of the main mercantile store and ranch, helped secure Clintons future by also developing the ditches that supplied water to placer claims, around the Clinton area. Once Amador County was formed in 1854, Clinton entrepreneur Thomas Loehr petitioned the county to declare the road from Jackson to Clinton a public road. In 1877 Clinton was still alive enough for the Garbarini brothers to build St. Peter & Paul's Catholic Church which remained, when the town disappeared. In 2003, descendants of the Garbarini's, returned to restore the small church and it was moved to the Kennedy Mine Foundation's grounds in the Jackson gate area.

This plaque dedicated on March 19th 2011 and year of our order 6016 by the James W. Marshall #49 Outpost of the Yerba Buena Lodge #1 Capitulus Redivivus of the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampsus Vitus

OHP description:

Clinton was the center of a placer mining community during the 1850s and of quartz mining as late as the 1880s. This town once decided Amador County elections as its votes were always counted last.

Registered 8/1/1932