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The value buyer
Most-affordable town in the survey. A real porch, a real yard, a real garage — at a number that looks like a typo to Bay Area eyes.
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The town that
The town that
launched a literature.
In the winter of 1865 an unknown young writer named Samuel Clemens sat down at the Angels Hotel bar and listened to a man named Ben Coon tell a yarn about a man, a frog, and a wager. Two weeks later the story was in a New York paper. Mark Twain was born.
The same hotel bar is still there, on the same block, on the same Main Street. The frog is still mythic. And every May, on the third weekend, the Calaveras County Fair & Jumping Frog Jubilee — running since 1928 — fills the fairgrounds with hundreds of frogs and the families that hand-raise them.
Angels Camp is also the operating address of Legacy Properties. Sara lives a mile from the fairgrounds. Most of her closings happen within a thirty-minute radius of her front porch.
Who Angels Camp is for —
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The first-time buyer
An hour-and-change from Stockton, two from the Bay. Inventory exists. Move-in dates are real. Offer terms are reasonable.
03
The history buyer
A 1900 cottage with the original windows. Walk to the museum, the saloon, the spot where Twain heard the story.
04
The full-timer
Hospitals fifteen minutes away in Mark Twain Medical Center. Schools, parks, the lifeguard at the city pool who's been there since 1991.
