Site of Cañon City
1851 – 1891
Cañon City was established in 1851 and in 1852 had a pop. of 800. The town had a blacksmith shop, two stores, two hotels, one temperance hall, one bakery, two billiard saloons, two express houses, two saw mills, post office, and a one-room school. In 1891 most of the town moved upstream to Dedrick where new strikes of gold were mad.
Marker is on Canyon Creek Road 8.3 miles north of California Route 229, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
