El Dorado County History

Historical Souvenir of El Dorado County California with Illustrations 
and Biographical Sketches of its Prominentmen and Pioneers. 
Oakland 1883. Paolo Sioli, Publisher. Compiled by P. Sioli.

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper, Oct 2009.

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LOCAL HISTORY. 

HOGGS DIGGINGS. 

This was once a rich and active mining camp, supporting two or three stores and various other places 
found around mining camps, John B. Hogg, after whom the place was named, and doubtless the first 
or one of the first settlers of the place, once picked up a piece of gold weighing $1800 : many pieces found 
from $500 upwards. Hogg was a native of Tennessee a man of fine culture and education, he had been 
Deputy Secretary of the State and Clerk of the Legislature his native State He was a successful 
and the first mining recorder of the district, and continued as a popular man when going out of office. 
He died at Hoggs Diggings on August 30th, 1875, about fifty-seven or fifty-eight years old, and was bur- 
ned at Hoggs Diggings burrying ground. Many friends lamented his death as he was loved in society 
and respected as a liberal business man. But all the old settlers are gone except James Clark and Mrs. 
Belsey Taylor widow of Wm. Taylor.