Dutch Flat Self-Guided Tour

Dutch Flat is a small mountain community in the eastern part of Placer County. Once home to over 1,000 people, today the Dutch Flat Historic District sits on the National Register of Historic Places and visitors can view many of the remaining structures that existed in this formerly bustling community.

The Golden Drift Historical Society has collaborated with the Placer County Museums Division to highlight some of the historic buildings in Dutch Flat. If you are looking for the more extensive walking tour these highlights are based on, click on the link below to access a PDF of the Golden Drift Historical Society's official Walking Tour brochure.

 

The following building highlights offer a glimpse of the variety of sites that still exist in Dutch Flat and can be visited as part of this walking tour.

Please be advised this is a mountain town and much of the walking requires making your way up and down slopes of various steepness.

The first highlight on our tour sits at 32905 Main Street, the Daniel E. Smart House.

Headed downhill, the site of the former Opera House will be on your left.



Continue down the hill and you'll see signs on the left for the Golden Drift Museum.



Across the street and next to the post office building is the Dutch Flat Trading Post.



The big red three-story building across the street from the Trading Post is the Dutch Flat Hotel



Continuing downhill and zig-zagging back and forth across the street the building with the red steps is the Masonic Hall.



Right next door to that is the Odd Fellows Building.



Continuing downhill on Main Street, the Hearse House will be on the opposite side of the street just before the road curves to the left. 



Following the curve downhill, Main Street turns into Sacramento Street. Follow it and Stockton Street will be on your left. Just past Stockton Street, there is an old adobe building that is what remains of  Chinatown.



Backtrack down Sacramento Street until you get back to Stockton Street and then head up it. After it curves back towards Main Street, the Dutch Flat Grammar School will be on your left.



Across the street from the Grammar School is the Methodist Episcopal Church.

If you're looking for other self-guided tours of historic areas, check out the Placer County Museums tours page. There's also more info available if you visit the Golden Drift Museum or the Golden Drift Historical Society website.