Editing El Dorado Hills, California (section)

==History==
[[File:Fair294 (17315964489).jpg|thumb|left|Restaurants in the town center]]
[[File:Latrobe Rd. 679 - panoramio (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Shops on Latrobe Road]]
During the [[California Gold Rush]], gold was washed down the South Fork of the American River, into areas now in El Dorado Hills and Folsom, but farming and ranching supplanted mining or panning for gold. Portions of two Pony Express routes in this area from 1860 to 1861 remain as modern El Dorado Hills roads.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Placerville - Overland Pony Express Route in California (No. 701 California Historical Landmark) {{!}} Sierra Nevada Geotourism|url=https://sierranevadageotourism.org/entries/placerville-overland-pony-express-route-in-california-no-701-california-historical-landmark/ee9301d3-c6b1-4ccb-88af-086a4ee1a231|access-date=2020-09-24|website=sierranevadageotourism.org|language=en}}</ref>

The modern history of El Dorado Hills dates back to the early 1960s when original developer Allan Lindsey began its development as a master-planned community. The original master plan, prepared by architect [[Victor Gruen]], covered the area generally north of [[U.S. Highway 50]], and part of the area south of US 50 now considered to be part of the community. El Dorado Hills was envisioned as a large-scale master-planned community that would be completely planned from its inception as a group of residential "villages". Other land uses in the master plan included a business park, 18-hole golf course, community parks, schools, a community shopping center, and small commercial centers in each village. The master plan{{Citation needed|date=October 2014}} emphasized open space between villages and the opportunity for outdoor recreation.

Between the late 1960s and mid-1990s, growth occurred at a moderate pace as new families relocated from Sacramento, [[Southern California]] and the [[San Francisco Bay Area|Bay Area]]. This growth consisted primarily of residential housing, as retail developments were limited to two shopping centers on the corners Green Valley & Francisco and El Dorado Hills Boulevard & US 50. Each neighborhood created during this time period was given a name and referred to as a "village" by local inhabitants. The original villages of El Dorado Hills include Ridgeview, Park, Saint Andrews, Crown, and Governors. In the 1980s and 1990s, the major part of Lake Hills Estates north of Green Valley Road was reorganized into Lake Forest Village,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lakeforestmaster.org |title=Lake Forest Owners Association &#124; El Dorado Hills, California |website=Lakeforestmaster.org |access-date=2017-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330083305/http://www.lakeforestmaster.org/ |archive-date=2017-03-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref> containing the neighborhoods of Waterford, The Summit,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thesummitedh.org |title=The Summit |website=Thesummitedh.org |date=2011-08-06 |access-date=2017-03-29}}</ref> Green Valley Hills, Winterhaven, Marina Woods and Windsor Point. Additional villages that have developed subsequently include Fairchild, Sterlingshire, Highland Hills, Highland View, Bridlewood, Hills of El Dorado, Woodridge, Laurel Oaks and the master-planned community of Serrano.

The El Dorado Hills Town Center, just south of US 50, is a mixed-use project developed by The Mansour Company. Occupying {{Convert|100|acre|ha}} of land and, at completion, {{Convert|1,000,000|sqft|m2|spell=in}} of buildings, it is the center of town and of the region.<ref>{{cite web |title=El Dorado Hills Town Center |url=http://www.eldoradohillstowncenter.com/about-us.php |access-date=17 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131033146/http://www.eldoradohillstowncenter.com/about-us.php |archive-date=31 January 2013 }}</ref>