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A Tour of Nevada City Victorians (PH 8-17a)(1982) (53 pages)

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A Brio History Nevada City's history began in the Spring of 1849 when three miners pitched their canvas "tent-cabins" on the banks of Deer Creek and called their tiny settlement "DEER CREEK DRY DIGGINS." It wasn't long before word of this rich new site spread to the other camps in the Sierra Foothills and within a few months, the area was crowded with "panners" seeking an easy fortune. Later that same year, A.B. Caldwell opened the first commercial enterprise on the site of the present Episcopal Church on Nevada Street and the town became known as "CALDWELL'S UPPER STORE." In 1850, the name was changed to the more dignified, "NEVADA" (meaning snow-covered in Spanish; no doubt inspired by the harsh winter of 1849), and 14 years later, when the State of Nevada entered the Union, "city" was added to the name and the thriving community acquired its present name of "NEVADA CITY." The "gold rush" was well under way in this part of the state by the end of 1850 and each week the population of Nevada City grew. Resident, James J. Ott assayed the first sample of silver ore from Nevada here in Ott's Assay Office (the present Nevada City Hint on Main Street) in 1859, and with the announcement of this new strike, a number of miners pulled up stakes and moved on to Nevada's Comstock Lode which seemed to hold the promise of even greater riches. Nevertheless, the population of Nevada City continued to grow and the townspeople began building more substantial permanent structures for their homes and places of business.