Fiddletown changed its name to Oleta in 1878 and back to Fiddletown in 1932. Information from the Malakoff site. The Malakoff site has some great gold camp histories of the Highway 49 communities: http://www.malakoff.com/goldcountry.htm Carolyn E_or_P_Rowell wrote: > > Many thanks for letting me know that Ione and Fiddletown > are not the same place. This was my assumption, but I've > been wrong before, and since Fiddletown was not listed in > my old 1885 atlas, I couldn't be positive about it. > > Can anyone tell me if Fiddletown was renamed for a while > and then changed back to Fiddletown? This was mentioned > in her telephone call.....so maybe that's what confused > her thinking it was Ione. > > Thanks again! > PatriciaJ<[email protected]> > > ==== CA-GOLDRUSH Mailing List ==== > Automatic Administrative Reminder: > If you have an announcement of an up-coming event in > celebration of California's sesqicentenniel, please get > approval from the list owner <[email protected]> before > posting it to the list.