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PLACERVILLE, Calif. — El Dorado County History

Find out how “Heartless” in El Dorado County, CA got its name.

Guy Nixon explains the dividing line between the sheep ranchers and the cattle ranchers.

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Hartless Mountain is named for Benjamin W. Hartless, a Garden Valley dairyman and farmer. Hartless received formal land patents from the General Land Office in 1892 on land immediately around artless Mountain and Uncle Tom’s Cabin which he used for Summer grazing of his livestock. The Hurtless Guard Station, on Hartless Mountain was the original Hartless Summer grazing cabin. Originally born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, Feb 15, 1828, he moved with his widowed mother to Carroll County Missouri, living there for 6 years, before heading to California. As so many new arrivals to California, Hartless took up mining initially in Nevada City before eventually migrating to the American River us well as Dry Creek, near Georgetown. By 1858, he gave up mining and began farming and running dairy cattle at Garden Valley. Hartless married a widow, Mrs Wakefield with six children on April 23rd, 1871. The children’s names were Claudis B., William B., Jefferson D., Frank, Thomas and John. Mrs Hartless was a native of Saratoga County, upstate New York, who arrived in California in 1853. She first made her home in Sacramento County

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John Hauser
on May 8, 2022