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49er Frontier Days Souvenir Program (PH 6-18) (42 pages)
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HISTORIC FACTS NEVADA COUNTY
The County of Nevada was organized by an act of legislature, approved May 18, 1851.
The first long distance telephone line in the world was established in this county. Part of it
is still in use at French Corral. Date, 1878.
Slave Girl Tree, At Rough-and-Ready, an immense cottonwood tree is referred to as i
“Slave Girl Tree.” The tradition is that Hannah, a slave girl who came with others from Kentucky
in the early 50’s, pushed her riding switch into the soil at that point. The switch took root and
is now an immense tree probably 75 feet in height.
TOWNS
YOU BET—You Bet originally had another name, but a group of men, gathered in a saloon and
somewhat inebriated, decided to change its name. They agreed to ask the first fellow they
met what he thought about it. They approached a man on the street and asked him if he
thought it would be a good idea to rename the town. “You Bet!” he answered, and You Bet
it is.
RED DOG—Situated nine miles from Nevada City, the town was named for a drunken old man
with long red hair. Ineffectual efforts have since been made to change the name to Brooklyn.
FRENCH CORRAL—The town derived its name from an old station erected there in 1849. First
mining was in a rich ravine in 1852.
ROUGH-AND-READY was named after the Rough & Ready Co. of Wisconsin, which settled the
little village.
TOWN TALK—The settlement lies halfway between Grass Valley and Nevada City and was so
named because that point was to be the juncture for the Nevada Co. Narrow Gauge R. R.
between the towns. So much interest and excitement in the meeting point made that spot the
“talk of the town.”
TIMBUCTOO—Among the first prospectors to enter this region were L. B. Clark and William
Monigan, who found gravel rich in gold. To their astonishment, they discovered the first
locater to be a negro from Timbuctoo, Africa; hence the new camp was named Timbuctoo.
ALLEGHANY—Alleghany clings to the side of a mountain, and is a typical “gold camp.” It is
here that the original and well-known Sixtecen-to-One Mine is located. E