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Amador County Genealogical Group

Amador County Historical Society

Italian Benevolent Society est.1881

The Italian Benevolent Society is the oldest independent Italian Society in the United States. Established in 1881 as a charitable institution for the aid of families of Italian Miners. These miners worked the Gold Mines of Amador County. The Society provided death benefits to those killed in the mines. As time went on it became a social and comunity based organization.