Dorothea Zeisz
You have found the medallion for Dorothea Hartman. She was born in 1841 in Alace, Lorraine, France. She married Jacob Zeisz in Placerville in 1859 and became Dorothea Zeisz. Jacob built the large Zeisz brewery on Upper Main Street the same year. The couple had ten children. In 1881, shortly after their last child was born, Jacob returned to Bavaria where he was born. He never came back. Dorothea was tasked with making a living for her large family.
She continued the brewery business with her older sons, began renting rooms in the large home and operating a card room and dining room, doing much of the cooking herself, charging 25 cents for a meal. The entire family pitched in with the work. A vegetable garden provided fresh produce and they kept a cow, chickens, turkeys and geese. Dorothea continued working in the family businesses until her death in 1919. All that is left of the building is a carved limestone block that was over the door to the brewery at 660 Main St.
To find the next miner from Dorothea Zeisz’s medallion . . .
Continue on Main Street almost to the crosswalk to Clay Street where you will find a medallion for this woman who made her living selling pies. Her medallion is near cars and best found by children who like to walk along the place her medallion lies.
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