This is a small cemetery containing a very few gravestones with family names such as Bennett, Wallace and others. Many of the marked graves are dated as late as the 20th century.

The cemetery is not accessible by the general public and is presently located within a gated community.

The Duroc House Cemetery dates to the days of roadhouses and waystations along the Sacramento to Placerville Road of the early 1850s. The Bennett daughters buried here are the children of Erastus D. Bennett and Martha A. Lucas whose parents William and Ellen (nee Nail) Lucas are buried in the El Dorado Cemetery in the town of El Dorado.

Erastus Bennett was associated with Bennett's Ranch in the 1860s and 1870s originally owned by his father, David Bennett and brother John D. Bennett. Erastus purchased a portion of his family's land as well as vineyard lands sold to him by the wife of B. N. Bugbey, whose early vineyards were highly touted and promoted the wine industry in eastern Sacramento County and western El Dorado County.

In its earliest period of time, what later became the Duroc House and ranch of Cox and Crawford may have been owned by E. S. Hanchett, before Hanchett and his son Joseph moved to the area of Hank's Exchange east of Diamond Springs. Before selling his ranch land near Shingle Springs, Hanchett withheld a small piece of his land, "one rod square" (equal to 16 ft x 16 ft square) that contained the grave of his little daughter who had died there.

It is theorized that the Duroc House Cemetery may have evolved over the years from that small hallowed 16 ft x 16 ft square of land. The theory may never be proven in that the exact location of the little Hanchett girl's grave was not stated in the deed document nor has a gravestone ever been found on the property Hanchett had sold.

Like the Duroc House Cemetery, approximately 98 percent of the existing cemeteries in El Dorado County date to the early 1850s period of settlement of the areas of the county where mining camps, towns, village or "cities" emerged and waned over time. Even the roadhouse properties represented micro-communities with most having a lodging house, stable, blacksmith shop and other amenities to serve the traveling public.

Because no records of burials at any of the cemeteries in the county were accurately kept it is not known how many graves lie unmarked, unknown and vulnerable to invasion by modern burials. Burial in historic-era cemeteries is never a wise thing to do. You have to ask yourself, just who do I want to bury mom or dad on top of because someone's early grave is unmarked today?