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AMADOR COUNTY LIVING HISTORY PROJECT

The Amador County Living History Project interviews are edited and digitized, then hosted at no charge by Amadorgold for the Amador County Historical Society. All interviews are also the property of the Amador County Historical Society.

Individuals who would like to participate or who need more information are asked to call Keith Sweet at (209) 419-3770 or Jim Guidi at (209) 223-1340



Oral Histories of Life in Amador County
Life in Amador County and the Mines before 1997

  • Jackie Mosher - Live Interview
  • Joan DalPorto - Live Interview
  • Lumber Mill Workers - Live Interview
  • Marie and John Solaja - Live Interview
  • Marylin Jones - Live Interview
  • Dan Sinclair - Live Interview
  • Phyllis Swensen - Live Interview
  • Rosemary Fields - Live Interview
  • Nina Winters - Live Interview
  • Dolores Larrigan - Live Interview
  • John Ferrero - Live Interview
  • Del Farnham - Live Interview
  • Eloise James - Live Interview
  • Raggio - Live Interview
  • Dominick Fregolia - Live Interview
  • June Vaira - Live Interview
  • William Gebhardt - Live Interview
  • Anne Teabeau Sprague - Live Interview





  • We are in the process of placing over 100 previously transcribed interviews online. These transcribed interviews were done by Cedric Clute. Individuals who would like to participate or who need more information are asked to call Keith Sweet at (209) 419-3770 or Jim Guidi at (209) 223-1340

  • John Pierovich - Argonaut Mine Disaster
  • John Pierovich - Early Days in Jackson, California
  • Thelma Pierovich - Early Days in Jackson, California
  • Steve Sanguinetti - Argonaut Mine Disaster
  • Georffery Schweitzer - Early Jackson and the Mines
  • Steve Sanguinetti
  • Mrs. Pearl Sanguinetti
  • George Bonnefoy
  • George Bonnefoy
  • Frank and Edwina Liddicoat - The Gold Mines and life in the County
  • Ruth and Harold Gabriel - The Bi-Centennial wagon drive to Valley Forge
  • Bob Porter, Gert and Arnold Jonas - Volcano
  • Sadie and Ralph Crain
  • Stephen Graham - Jose Amador
  • Gladys Spinetti - Fremont Mine
  • Babe Garbarini - Retirement Dinner
  • Gladys Spinetti - Fremont/Grover Mine
  • Georgia and Frank White - Early days in Pine Grove and Volcano, Logging
  • Georgia and Frank White - Early days in Pine Grove and Volcano, Logging
  • Babe and Marie Garbarini - Living in Volcano
  • Babe and Marie Garbarini - Newspaper Business and old time Jackson
  • Mary Welch - Sutter Creek, and Skunk Hollow
  • Mary Welch - Opera House
  • Mary Lawrence - Postmaster, Fiddletown
  • Evelyn Gillick Garbarini - Early days in Volcano
  • Grace Vila and Leslie Martin - Jackson Early Days
  • Ernest Lucot - Jackson Early Days
  • Josephine Carpenter - Schools in Amador County
  • John Huberty - Work and Play in Amador County
  • Jane Boitano - Sutter Creek and Amador County
  • Frank Liddicoat - Mines of Amador County
  • Amador County Hospital - Early days in the County with Linda Cuneo and others
  • Amador County Hospital - Early days in the County with Linda Cuneo, Lili Vicini and others
  • Amador County Hospital - Ione and Preston School
  • Fred Clark - Suckertown, Fiddletown and the small mines
  • Muriel Thebaut - From a young lady's diary, 1855 to 1862
  • Toby Tyler - Landmarks in Amador County
  • Ted Baggelmann - John Sutter
  • Clyde Berriman - Filing for Historic Register of the Kennedy Wheels
  • Mariposa County 125th Anniversary Celebration
  • Ruth Clarke - Famous characters out of the west and trip down hwy 49
  • William Sprague - Gambling in Jackson
  • Romona Dutschke - The Miwok Indians
  • Georgia White - Old Pine Grove Buildings
  • Evelyn Garbarini - The Kennedy Wheels
  • Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Buzza - Early days in Sutter Creek
  • Dorothy McEwen - Early days in Norway and working for Jack London
  • Mrs. Chester McMullen - John Ratto's scrapbook
  • Gladys Spinetti - Amador County Mines
  • 125th Anniversary Celebration - Amador County


  • If you should have any old photos, or have specific information and would like to share it with us, we would be happy to include it on our site.

    Most of our historical photos are courtesy of Amador County Archives

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