Hotel Leger

Guests describe the ghost of George Léger across many of the Hotel Leger's thirteen rooms and in the saloon, most strongly in Room 7; a woman in white is reported in Room 2, and a young boy in Room 3. Local accounts hold that Léger was shot inside the hotel in a dispute over cards, a detail that is widely repeated but not confirmed. Léger, a Frenchman drawn by the Gold Rush, opened the Hôtel de France here in 1851 as little more than a wood-framed tent and rebuilt in stone after fire; his hotel joined the neighbouring building that had begun as the Calaveras County courthouse in 1854, which is why it is made of three combined structures. Mokelumne Hill burned repeatedly, and the hotel is among the oldest operating hotels in California, with the courthouse a California Historical Landmark.