Built in 1852, the Iron Door Saloon is California’s oldest, continuously operating saloon. Photos: TNS/Aric Crabb
Like many Gold Rush towns, Groveland near the Yosemite National Park in California, the United States, has checkered history, one rich in booms, busts, rogues and miners. Of course, the town’s name was not nearly as bucolic back in 1848, when it was part of the Savage Diggins.
To be fair, the place was named after settler James Savage, but connotations tend to stick when you’ve got mining camps named after hanging trees.
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