1/16/2025
1/16/2025
Landmark information
- Location:
NE corner of Main St and Birds Way, Angels Camp - Plaque:
Official State Plaque - Site:
Existing - Date First Visited:
5/26/1996 - Date Most Recently Visited:
1/16/2025 - GPS Coordinates:
N 38 4.115, W 120 32.356 - Other Designations:
National Register of Historic Places
About this landmark
Plaque text:
Angels Hotel
C.C. Lake erected here a canvas hotel in 1851. It was replaced by a one-story wooden structure, and then by one of stone in 1857. Here, Samuel Clemens first heard the yarn, which was later to bring him fame as Mark Twain, author of "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras."