Fredericksburg, California

Fredericksburg is an unincorporated community in Alpine County, California. It is located north-northeast of Woodfords, at an elevation of 5072 feet.
The town developed in the 1860s. A post office operated at Fredericksburg from 1898 to 1911.

Name

The town was started in 1864 and may have been named for Frederick Frevert, who operated a sawmill nearby.

The settlement began in the 1860s when German settler Frederick Buns began farming in the area. The farm became a stopover for travelers heading towards California and supplied milk and apples to mining towns as far away as Virginia City, Nevada. Several other German families settled in the community. A hotel opened but became the site of the school in 1881. A small brushfire in 1986 destroyed some old buildings. Fredericksburg has remained a small agricultural community.