by Bob Walsh
Placerville,
Ca used to be known as Hangtown WAY back in the day. The tradition is
so fixed that there was a noose on the city seal. The city council
caved to the woke crowd a couple of weeks ago and removed the noose from
the city seal. They recently, however, reaffirmed their commitment to
the old name of Hangtown as part of the town's cultural heritage.
The
woke crowd managed to convince the city council to remove the "hated
symbol" from the seal. The noose was pictured hanging from a tree
branch in the background of the seal, the principle figure on the seal
is a gold miner panning for gold. There were three lynchings in old
Hangtown back in the mining days. As far as I remember from my old
California history they were done by a vigilante committee and were not
racially motivated. The stump of the hanging tree still exists, in the
basement of a building which was put up on the site.
The city was also known as Old Dry Diggins. That name is also an "official nickname" for the city.
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