Greasertown (also, Petersburg) is a former settlement in Calaveras County, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of San Andreas, on the west side of the Calaveras River.[1][2] It was a mining town during the California Gold Rush. It was destroyed when the first Hogan Dam on the Calaveras River was built in the late 1920s.[3]

References

  1. ^ Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 824. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
  2. ^ Maness, Charity (November 10, 2015). "Petersburg stood in zone inundated by old Hogan dam". Calaveras Enterprise. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
  3. ^ Isetti, Ronald Eugene (2019). Competing voices : a critical history of Stockton, California. [Denver, Colorado]: Outskirts Press. p. 286. ISBN 1-9772-1483-5. OCLC 1119604979.

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