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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. Since 1975 California State Parks has administered and maintained the mine as a ...
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 of California State Historic Parks ... Antelope Valley Indian Museum State Historic Park; ... El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park; Empire Mine State ...
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 ...
William Bowers Bourn II (31 May 1857 – 5 July 1936) was an American entrepreneur and socialite.Bourn ran and controlled the Empire Mine and the San Francisco Gas Company, he was an investor in Spring Valley Water Company, and he led a merger to what later became Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
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
Pages in category "Grass Valley, California" ... California State Route 174; ... Ecclesia Pistis Sophia; Empire Mine State Historic Park; G. Gold Hill (Nevada County ...
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.