Meyers is a small unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 in El Dorado County

El Dorado County, California

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, California

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, United States

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, along U.S. Route 50

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 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada south of South Lake Tahoe

South Lake Tahoe, California

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 in the Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe

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 area. It lies at an elevation of 6352 feet (1936 m). Established in 1851 Meyers started out as a stagecoach stop, trading post and Pony Express

Pony Express

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 station.

History

Martin Smith was the town's founder; he opened a trading post and inn on the Placerville-Carson Road in 1851 In 1859, Ephraim "Yank" Clement and his wife Lydia purchased the station and outbuildings from George Douglas and Martin Smith, who had ran the station as a hostelry and stagecoach stop. The Clements enlarged the station into a three-story, fourteen-room way station which included a large stable and hay barn with large corrals across the road. The station served as a Pony Express stop up until October 26, 1861. Upon completion of the wagon road over Kingsberry Grade, the Pony Express route continued along the south shore of Lake Tahoe stopping at Yank's Station Toll House, near Myers on U.S. 50. Warren Upson was the first Pony Express rider to arrive here on April 28, 1860. The station also served as a stage stop with a trading post and hotel. The toll house was pushed off its foundation by flood waters and is currently located on blocks adjacent to the Tahoe Paradise Museum. In 1873 George Henry Dudley Meyers bought the place. Business remained good at the station for a fair number of years and continued to serve as a hotel and store until November 25, 1938, when the building was destroyed by fire during the Meyers town fire. A post office opened in 1904. The post office closed in 1957, and reopened in 1958. It was renamed Tahoe Paradise in 1962.

Demographics

(Note the following uses wrong zip code of 95023) According to the 2000 Census

United States Census, 2000

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, in the zip code where Meyers is located 26,364 (spoke English

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 as their primary language while 17,173 (39%) did not, 15,898 (37%) spoke Spanish

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 or Spanish Creole

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, 180 (0.4%) spoke Tagalog

Tagalog language

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, (0.3%) 145 spoke French

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, Cajun

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, Patois, or other French dialects, 134 (0.3%) spoke Portuguese

Portuguese language

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 or Portuguese Creole, 123 (0.2%) spoke Korean

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, 112 (0.2%) spoke "other Pacific Island languages" and the rest spoke other languages.