El Dorado County, California along with the population since the 1960 Winter Olympics, hosted at Squaw Valley Ski Resort in neighboring Placer County. The present-day site of El Dorado County was once home to the Maidu, Washoe, and Miwok Native American tribes, and is notable for being the site of the 1848 gold discovery that sparked the California Gold Rush. The County of El Dorado was one of California's original 27 counties created effective February 18, 1850 (the number has risen to 58 today). Its name is derived from the Spanish meaning "the gilded/golden". The final segments of the Pony Express mail route ran
USS Dorado (SS-248) book entitled "USS DORADO (SS-248): On Eternal Patrol" was published by Douglas E. Campbell in November 2011. Before she was lost, the American painter Thomas Hart Benton sailed aboard Dorado on its shakedown cruise, using that experience as the basis for his paintings "Score Another for the Subs, In Slumber Deep," and "The Claustrophobic Confines" "Dorado" was only one of only two U.S. Navy submarines lost in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. The other was the USS "R-12" which sank during a training dive near Key West, Florida. USS Dorado (SS-248) USS "Dorado" (SS-248), a "Gato"-class submarine, was