When the Angels Camp museum opens its doors today, as it does every Thursday, it will be in part because of Emily Stemler. The 88-year-old has served the museum for 27 years, during that time ushering ...

In honor of the birthday of Albert Michelson, who was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in physics, a small, ...

The abrupt firing of Angels Camp Museum Director Craig Hadley last week has left the city searching for its third museum executive in the past three years. City Administrator Michael McHatten wrote ...

A symposium titled Memories of Angels Camp will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Carriage House of the Angels Camp Museum, 753 S. Main St., Angels Camp. Longtime residents will talk about what ...

There are scores of charming little leftover Gold Rush towns along California State Highway 49 as it rambles among the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada. They’re filled with antique stores, ...

Frogs are a big thing in Angels Camp. They have been since a young Mark Twain arrived there in 1865 and heard a story about a jumping frog contest. “Coleman with his jumping frog — bet stranger $50 — ...

ANGELS CAMP— Staying true to its mission to help educate and preserve history, Native Sons of the Golden West made a donation to the Angels Camp Museum that will benefit the public. Native Sons of the ...

Reporting from Angels Camp, Calif. — Los Angeles and this tiny Gold Rush town share the same “City of Angels” nickname, and the similarities don’t end there. Just as Hollywood honors its celebrities ...