Shingle Springs Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 38.664597, -120.926899
County: El Dorado
Record count: 34

Ownership: El Dorado County

Directions: Shingle Springs Cemetery sits behind a large office building off of Mother Lode Drive. Coming off of Highway 50 your would go left on Mother Lode Drive (Gold Harvest Market on the corner).

Background: Shingle Springs Cemetery is in what was once the boom town of Shingle Springs, California, famous for the Shingle Factory. The town was built up with the hopes that the railroad would continue east through Placerville, which did not happen until 1865.

When the railroad finally went through, population in Shingle Springs skyrocketed. The original cemetery, Planters House Cemetery, could no longer keep with the growth.

Shingle Springs Cemetery was founded in 1864 (despite the sign onsite saying 1874) to relieve the demand on Planters House Cemetery, and was in continuous use from 1865 to 1970. The earliest recorded burial occurred in 1864, but the earliest burial with a headstone was in 1867. In 1950, the cemetery was deeded to El Dorado County from the Barrett Family.

The Cemetery encompasses approximately 0.57 acres with 94 plots as detected through Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR).

Burial Records

• Tombstone Transcription, compiled by Candis Ward, March 2005, (34 records)

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