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Smartsville is named for Jim Smart, a local hotel proprietor during the days of the Gold Rush. Other nearby Gold Rush towns with picturesque names are Timbuctoo, Sucker Flat and Rough and Ready. Extensive placer mining tailings remain throughout the area. Smartsville gave its name to a co-extensive geologic zone of the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, the Smartville Complex which is associated with the presence of gold veins in the Mother Lode country. Due to a ruling by the U.S. Post Office Department (now the U.S. Postal Service), Smartsville became Smartville in 1909; this change was strengthened by a similar ruling by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 1947. In August 2008, the Board on Geographic Names ruled in favor of the form "Smartsville." The Smartville Cemetery is a historic cemetery. A post office was opened at Smartville in 1865. |
