Drytown Public Cemetery, Drytown

From Hwy 49 at Dry Creek Bridge, North 0.2 mile to entrance on left. The cemetery is only accessable by appointment only.

Johann Heinrich Meiss (1793-1865)
Served in the Prussian Army during Napoleon's first conquest of Europe. Came to Drytown 1852, established the first butcher shop in the area in 1854.

Information, photographs courtesy of the Amador County Archives, The Historical Marker Database, and the Chronicling America Database