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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR06_hydraulic-gold-mining-21-inch-gate-valve_Nevada-City-CA.html
Used at You Bet-Red Dog Diggin's east of Nevada City periodically 1880-1935 to control water flow from Chalk Bluff Reservoir to the mine. Hydraulic nozzle mounted opposite was operated at that mine by Thomas B. Brady (1874-1964).***** Manufactured…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQZV_searls-law-office_Nevada-City-CA.html
This building, completed December, 1872, was the law office for three generations of this family. Niles Searls, who arrived in 1851, practiced law here from 1872 to 1885. He had been elected District Attorney in 1855, then District Judge for Nevad…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQZP_national-exchange-hotel_Nevada-City-CA.html
Originally the Bicknell Block, stagecoach, mail, express and telegraph center in mining days. Companies which became Pacific Gas & Electric formed here. Site of the first whipping post in state. Fa?ade unchanged since 1854.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQZ9_william-morris-stewart-mansion_Nevada-City-CA.html
Exact replica of wife's Ante-Bellum Colonial birthplace.
Only edifice of this type in California. Stewart, an early Nevada County District Attorney, joined 1859 Comstock silver rush. Led battle for statehood and became Nevada's first U.S. Senat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQZ7_first-brick-building_Nevada-City-CA.html
Built in 1853First Brick Building Erected in this city Dedicated To the memory of the pioneers of Nevada City
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQZ2_nevada-county-court-house_Nevada-City-CA.html
Nevada County organized out of Yuba County May 18, 1851. Wooden court house and log jail built on Broad Street 1851. The first court house on this site was erected in 1856. The building was damaged by fire in July of the same year and rebuilt. Des…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQZ1_old-wells-fargo-building_Nevada-City-CA.html
Site of Old Wells Fargo Building 1853 Dedicated to the Pioneers of California By Hydraulic Parlor No. 56 N.S.G.W. July 5, 1926
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQYX_site-of-the-original-ott-assay-office_Nevada-City-CA.html
J.J. Ott's Assay in 1859 helped develop the great Comstock Lode and the State of Nevada.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQYP_trinity-episcopal-church_Nevada-City-CA.html
Trinity Episcopal Church, founded as a parish in 1855, opened for divine service in this building on November 2, 1873. Previously on this site was "Caldwell's Upper Store", built in 1849 for the miners of Upper Deer Creek Dry Diggings, now known a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQYN_the-old-brewery_Nevada-City-CA.html
Constructed of granite blocks from the Sierras about 1882 where Simon C. Hieronimus & family brewed and served lager beer to Nevada City Queen of the Northern Mines and hydraulic mining communities.