Who Is Bright Hope Designs?

Bright Hope Designs is a full service custom website design company located in the Sierra Nevada foothills between Auburn in Placer County and Placerville in El Dorado County, California. We offer affordable website design, website redesign or update services.

In addition we offer internet hosting, domain registration and related services to small, medium and large businesses and agricultural enterprises wishing to have a strong web based presence. Our primary area of service is Amador County, Calavaras County, El Dorado County, Nevada County, Placer County, Sacramento County, San Joaquin County, Sierra County, Stanislaus County, Sutter County, Tuolumne County, Yolo County, Yuba County and Douglas County in Nevada. However, we will do business with anyone requiring our website design services anywhere in the United States.

Services we offer include:

Given our experience and expertise in commercial website design development, customer service and business-to-business sales, we can offer unique and superior service to business owners, in comparison to what is currently available.

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Were Did We Get Our Name?

The Bright Hope Lode (Lode: · A rich source or supply) was discovered in the late 1870's by a prospector by the name of J.M.Lineham while exploring an area known as the Eureka mining zone west of Kelsey’s Diggings California. The lode and the resulting Bright Hope Mine offered its discoverer a “Bright Hope” for his and his family’s future.

The lode was believed to be an extension of gold discoverer James Marshal’s Gray Eagle and Big Sandy mines, which were just south of town. The town of Kelsey or Kelsey’s Diggings (also known as Winterville, later Slatington, and now Kelsey) was the site of Marshal’s blacksmith shop and was considered in its heyday one of the rowdiest mining camps in California’s Mother Lode.

The mine may have been purchased in 1886 by the publisher of the Georgetown Gazette (considered by some to be California's oldest newspaper) Horace Hulbert, who, like many of his day in the gold country, was also a prospector and miner. An interesting note was that in the late 1800’s the use of templates printed by major newspapers was common among small town papers. The templates(containing state and national news) were shipped to the local paper, which filled around the borders and in specific places with local ads, news and items of interest and then sold them as their own. Horace Hulbert, like Bright Hope Designs, did not use templates for his papers.

Additional facts: The area around Kelsey was the site of the 5th gold strike in the mother lode. Kelsey experienced several gold rushes, 1850’s, 1880’s, 1910, and the last in 1930. The Eureka slate mine, one time the world’s largest producer of blackboard and roofing slate, opened in 1898.