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1849 Brewing Company in Grass Valley [126] Boca Brewing Company in Boca (opened 1876, closed 1893) [127] FiftyFifty Brewing Company in Truckee; Grass Valley Brewing in Grass Valley [128] Nevada Brewery in Nevada City; Good Wolf Brewing Company in Truckee [129] Three Forks Bakery & Brewing Company in Nevada City [130]
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.
Gold Hill in Grass Valley, California, was the site of one of the first discoveries of quartz gold [2] in California. While quartz gold was also found in other areas of Nevada County, California during the same time, it is this find near Wolf Creek that led to quartz-mining frenzy and subsequent creation of the Gold Country quartz-mining industry.
The first established settlement in Rough and Ready was made in the fall of 1849 by a mining company from Wisconsin, known as the Rough and Ready Company, during the California Gold Rush. [4] Their leader, Captain A. A. Townsend , named the company after General Zachary Taylor (nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready") who had recently been elected the ...
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.
I-80 west (SR 193 west) / Grass Valley Highway to Lincoln Way – Sacramento: Interchange; north end of I-80 / SR 193 overlap; Grass Valley Highway is former SR 49 south; I-80 exit 119B: North Auburn: 6.38: Bell Road to I-80 – Auburn Municipal Airport, Reno, Sacramento: Bear River: 11.37
Looking down into the Empire Mine shaft in Grass Valley, California. Amador County – At the time of the Gold Rush the Kennedy Mine was the deepest in the world at 5,919 feet. Argonaut Mine was active from 1850 to 1942. In 1922, there was a fire in the area and 47 men were trapped in the mine and died. This mine was shut down due to World War ...
Lotta's father, John Crabtree, arrived to Grass Valley in the early 1850s as part of the California Gold Rush. Lotta and her mother joined him in 1853. Lotta and her mother joined him in 1853. The Crabtrees, British immigrants , ran their home as a boarding house for the miners, many of whom were Cornish .