![]() The courthouse is on Yaney Street and a block west of Washington Street in the north part of downtown. Built in 1898 with yellow Roman pressed brick, and still in operation as a courthouse today. ![]() There is a business area in East Sonora, a couple of miles east of downtown, that has additional shopping and restaurants (including the only chain stores and restaurants and fast food places in Tuolumne County). Park either on the main downtown street, Washington Street, or on the street or in nearby parking lots that are on Stewart Street, one block east of Washington Street. Ticket prices include park entry, and can be purchased from the shuttle driver. The YARTS shuttle travels on Highway 120 from Sonora to Yosemite Valley, with stops in Sonora at the Black Oak Hotel, the Best Western, the Inns of California and Rocca Park. Shuttle operates from mid-May through late-September. Yosemite Area Regional Transit System ( YARTS).Visitor information is available from the Visitors Bureau building, also on Stockton Street, about a mile south of downtown. To get to downtown Sonora, take the Route 49 exit (Stockton Street) from Highway 108 about two miles to the downtown area. Part of the way from Oakdale Highway 108 shares the same road as Highway 120, the route to Yosemite. Sonora is just off Highway 108, which leads from Modesto northeast and goes over Sonora Pass to the desert east of the mountains. Such pocket mines are distinguished from ordinary quartz mines, in which the gold is much less concentrated and requires much work and technology to mine, and which were not profitable until the 1880s when better mining technology had been developed.ģ7★9′3″N 120☂2′56″WMap of Sonora (California) It also had what were known as "pocket" mines-underground deposits of highly concentrated gold. When the placer mines began to give out in the 1860s, Sonora survived in part because it had become a business center. Sonora became the business center (and county seat of Tuolumne County) for the mines around the county and, indeed, for the entire Southern Mines region south of Placerville. Many miners were sick, and dying from scurvy, because they never learnt the importance of eating fresh vegetables and fruits in their diets. The City of Sonora was incorporated in 1851 primarily as a means of creating a badly-needed hospital. The name Sonora was derived from the Mexican miners who named the town after their native homeland. Gold had been discovered in Woods Creek, in the summer of 1848 near what is now Jamestown. Sonora was founded as a gold mining camp by settlers from back east. The city also benefits from its proximity to Railtown 1897 State Historic Park. ![]() As the closest city to Yosemite National Park, Sonora provides services to some of Yosemite's visitors. Sonora is a city of 4,900 people (2019) in Tuolumne County in California's Gold Country. ![]()
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