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Taylor continued to write fiction and biographies, including one on Winston Churchill. [citation needed] Taylor's 1958 novel The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, about a 14-year-old and his father in the California Gold Rush, won the Pulitzer Prize and was purchased for a film, but eventually became a television series, instead. [3]
Grass Valley is a city in Nevada County, California, United States.As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 12,860.Situated at roughly 2,500 feet (760 m) in elevation in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, this northern Gold Country city is 57 miles (92 km) by car from Sacramento and 88 miles (142 km) west of Reno.
List table of the properties and districts — listed on the California Historical Landmarks — within Imperial County, Southern California. Note: Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
State Route 174 (SR 174) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California.The two-lane 13-mile (21 km) highway in the western Sierra Nevada, added to the state highway system in 1933, connects Interstate 80 in Colfax with SR 20/SR 49 in Grass Valley, crossing the Bear River next to a 1924 concrete arch bridge.
Rough and Ready is a census-designated place in Nevada County, California, United States. [2] It is located west of Grass Valley, California, approximately 62 miles (100 km) from Sacramento. The population was 963 at the 2010 census. It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names. [3]
Empire Mine State Historic Park is a state-protected mine and park in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Grass Valley, California, U.S.The Empire Mine is on the National Register of Historic Places, a federal Historic District, and a California Historical Landmark.
Cedar Ridge is an unincorporated community in Nevada County, California, United States, along State Route 174 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east/southeast of Grass Valley, California. [2] and approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) east/southeast of the Empire Mine in Gold Country. The first Post Office was established in 1948 [2] and the zip code is 95924. [3]
Chicago Park (formerly: Storms Station) is a residential and unincorporated historic agricultural community in Nevada County, California. [2] It is located along Highway 174, with its center at the intersection of Mt. Olive Road.