i'm sorry a city known as what votes to remove what

[soothsayer]

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Emily G
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i’m sorry a city known as what votes to remove what

[TwilightZone]

1. So named after they hung three men in 1849. It was changed in 1854.

"According to the museum guide at the Fountain & Tallman Museum, there were only three hangings that occurred after three men on horseback came into town with guns ablaze. The name stuck after that. By about 1850, the temperance league and a few local churches had begun to request that a more friendly name be bestowed upon the town."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placerville,_California#History

Kind of odd that they've kept the name on the logo, not to mention the noose.

[Hekate]

2. I read that the noose was a relatively recent addition & was not always there...

I think they’re trying to be all rugged and Western and Miners-‘49ers — it’s interesting (and amusing) that “the temperance league and a few local churches” have been trying to clean up the name since the very year after the Gold Rush started. That’s what you get when you let the churches and Respectable womenfolk and the Temperance Union in.