Rural community/small town/mining town, 7,500 residents with turn-of-the-century western, wooden facades and 75 ornate Victorian homes on the Registry of Historic Places. County seat was a bustling Gold Rush town in the 1850's. Main street has public courthouse, fire station, train station, park, churches and temples, brick buildings, bar, hotel/motel/inn, general store, pharmacy, restaurants, grocery store, hardware store, bakery, community center, prisons and jails, cemeteries, train depot. Midwestern and western architecture. Small town type is mill town, valley town, company town, pioneer town, western, mining or ghost town. Designated as a historical monument, maintained for tourist trade, and partially restored.