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The El Dorado Hills Library is located:
on Silva Valley Parkway near the crossing of Serrano Parkway


El Dorado Hills Branch Library
7455 Silva Valley Parkway
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
(916) 358-3500

General meeting are open to the public and are held at 6:30 on the 4th Wednesday of each month in the meeting room of the library. 

In addition to our speakers artifacts from CRHS collection are displayed.
The Society makes it a point to have interesting and well qualified presenters.

Admission is Free and everyone is welcome!

January 25th 2012 Presentation
This is the second year of the American Civil War's sesquicentennial. CRHS is starting its first presentation of the new year with a multimedia presentation on the local areas involvement with the Civil War. The presenters provide the fascinating back story about the part California and the gold country played in the Civil War. 

The presentation will be by Richard Hurley and J. T. Meekins and is based on research they used for their new book "Queen of the Northern Mines".  The authors will be at the library at 4:30 PM for a book signing, the presentation starts at 6:30.  Both events are free and everyone is welcome. Check our their Website   www.BearRiverBooks.com

Novermer 15th To mark the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in California the Society has invited Debbie Hollingsworth for the California State Capital Museum to tell us about the wonderful exhibit she has developed for the Museum and the struggle to get women the right to vote in California. 

It was not until 9 years later in 1920 that the 19th Amendment was ratified  granting the right to vote to all American Women

October 26th  Our speaker for the October meeting will be Rich Dvoracek from Strike It Rich Adventuress’ he is a Geologist, Mining Historian and Paleontologist who received his education from UC Davis.  

For the past 9 years Rich, a.k.a. “Miner Rich” has taught 1850’s gold rush living history to thousands of school children. Rich has also taught adult geology classes, and has been a guest speaker for various organizations and colleges. Rich has competed in several state, national and international gold panning championships, bringing home the gold in the 1990’s in the national gold panning championships.  He will talk about the geology of the area and how gold came to be deposited here.  I have heard “Miner Rich” at the Gold Bug Mine and he really makes the subject come alive. 

September 28th we will have the On the Brink, Live Steam Group.  You saw them at Clarksville Day 2011 they were a big hit so we decided to have them back to one of our meetings to tell us about their club and how they build their trains.  Setup starts at about 2:00 so come early.

July No general meeting.  Our regular schedule will resume in August

June 22th presentation we will have a movie Narrow Gauge Logging Railroads of El Dorado County which has footage from 1935 to 1950 of the Diamond &Caldor and Michigan-California with its sensational 1200 foot ½ mile cableway spanning the American River gorge.  After the movie our president Hal Erpenbeck will take a few minutes to tell us about Shay locomotives. 

No Meeting in May because of Clarksville Day

April 27th, 2011 6:30 PM  at the EDH library:

 Dennis Armaral and his wife Antonia will be talking about the Concord and Mud Wagon stage coaches.  The Armaral’s will be giving rides on the Concord at Clarksville Day. Antonia will talk about Jenny Wimmer who was a resident of Coloma when gold was discovered.  It is from Jenny's Diary that we know the exact date of the gold discovery.

March 23rd, 2011   6:30 PM at the EDH library: Frontier Sewing and Garments of the Gold Rush by Marge Earhart

The March speaker for the Clarksville Region Historical Society will be Marge Earhart, her topic will be “Frontier Sewing and Garments of the Gold Rush” she will bring several garments from the period along with other interesting artifacts of the time.  Even the guys are going to like this presentation.  Marge is a long time member of the Gold Discovery Park Association and collector of antique sewing material, chatelaines and sewing machines.  Marge is a wealth of information on this subject so you're not going to not want to miss her presentation.

February 23rd, 2011   6:30 PM at the EDH library: Wild Flowers of the Western Slope By Joanne Geggatt

Joanne grow up in Santa Cruz and always had an interest in wild flowers.  She followed up her interest by getting degrees in botany and etymology Joanne is a long time member of the California Native Plant Society and the Santa Clara Valley Native Plant Society.  When she moved to El Dorado Hills she joined the El Dorado County Native Plant Society and the American River Conservancy in Coloma where she  a docent. 

Her topic will be the native plants of the western slope and the history of how they got their name.  She accompanies her talk with a beautiful set of slides.  One of the things that make this presentation special is that it comes just about the wild flowers will be putting on their show.        

 

Betty January
Past President and Program Director