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A former crossroads, Hills Flat became a self-sufficient community in the era of automobile travel, with utilities, several businesses, and a rapidly growing population as of 1932. [2] A referendum on annexation by Grass Valley was held in 1934, and was rejected. [3] Hills Valley residents ultimately voted to join Grass Valley in 1967. [4]
The Madera Sugar Pine Company was a United States lumber company that operated in the Sierra Nevada region of California during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company distinguished itself through the use of innovative technologies, including the southern Sierra's first log flume and logging railroad, along with the early adoption of the Steam Donkey engine.
[16] [17] Few people remained in the area, many having moved to work in the hard rock mines in neighboring Grass Valley. [18] [19] The town experienced a revival between the wars, and commercial mining continued until World War II. [20] [21] Since then, there have been periodic efforts to revive commercial mining when the price of gold soars ...
Its sawmill had a capacity of 10,000 ft. of lumber a day. [11] The local newspaper was the Cherokee Journal. [12] There was stagecoach service to Nevada City. [13] After 1878, Cherokee was connected to the world’s first long distance telephone line which ran from French Corral to the Bowman Lake area. [14]
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.
Town Talk was a historic mining community in Nevada County, California. [1] Town Talk was located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northeast of Grass Valley. [2] It was the site of the Town Talk Mine and a rail tunnel on the line between Grass Valley and Nevada City. [3]
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Louis Voss, Charles Kitt and the Towle Brothers were the principal lumbermen, each of them building a railroad to help get the lumber to market. [47] As for horticulture, "[i]n the western portion of Little York Township, fruit crops are a certainty every year and the excellence of the production insures the highest prices in the market.