Powningville is a former settlement in
El Dorado County
El Dorado County (), officially the County of El Dorado, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 191,185. The county seat is Placerville. The County is part of the Sacramento- Roseville-A ...
,
California.
It was located to east-northeast of
Pilot Hill.
Amos Bowman's map of the Georgetown Divide in El Dorado County shows a single tunnel owned by the Fairmount Copper Mining Company in the hill north of the town. Sometime before 1883, Powningville was involved in a dispute with the Nevada state government about a state prison.
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Former settlements in El Dorado County, California
Former populated places in California
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