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Title: Lola Montez in Grass Valley (PH 17-1)(Undated) Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Pamphlets Catalog #: PH 17-1 Author: Doris Foley Published: Undated Subjects: Lola Montez, Lotta Crabtree # of Pages: 40 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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Original Held At: Searls Historical Library Location: 161 Nevada City Hwy, Nevada City, CA 95959

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SEEELESSSS SSS ddd d dda ddHELEEEEEEEELELE CUS VIEW OF BOSTON RAVINE, GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, ; BOSTON RAVINE, GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA The following description is from an eastern journal, ‘Gleason’s Pictorial Review,” August 14, 1852. “We present above a characteristic California ‘view from an orginal and authentic drawing taken for us on the spot. It is a sample of the rough, homes of thousands of our friends, who have left comforts and happy firesides in New England to seek gold in the valley of Sacramento. The artist has forgotten to sketch any graves in the picture, but how many thousands who have gone thither, buoyant with hope and expecations, have done so only to find the stranger's grave. Yet the tide of emigration seems in no way abated. Gold still lures on the seeker to early death! The small cabin on the left was occupied by Messrs. J. T. Cracklin, joining which is the market and store of Hollis and Baxter.’ The left hand building in the foreground is the Eagle Tavern, kept by John West, on the right of which is the log cabin and ten-pin alley of B. L. Lamarque & Co. all of which are situated at the foot of Gold Hill, Boston Ravine. The hill in the background is Isadore Hill, named after a negro, who first discovered a quartz vein in it.” — Courtesy of the University of California Library. friendly feelings towards me, and whilst I have (guitar with thréé strings and anoldfiddle — we will » strived to do justice to the company of which I have been for some time the representative, have at the same time endeavored so far as circumstances would admit, to meet the wants of the public; and.it is a source of great satisfaction that these endeavors have been appreciated. Feeling sensibly, the compliment bestowed upon me, I regret that the time ere the sailing of the steamer is so limited for the closing of my business and the necessary preparations consequent on departure for the Atlantic States, that I am compelled to decline the dinner you have so kindly offered. Iam gentlemen, your obedient servant, GILMOR MEREDITH” Five months later, he was returning to California! While aboard the Pacific Mail steamer enroute to San Francisco from Panama, he wrote his sister Emma, the following: On Board the “California,” July 22, 1851: “..the greatest annoyance on board is the number of babies and children; the noise they keep up is frightful and I sometimes fancy I am in Pandemonium .. The ladies talk of having a dance tonight — and our band consists of an accordion, have a gay time. His father, Jonathan Meredith, settled in Grass Valley during the gold rush. Letters between his son and another relative, William Aspinwall, and himself, are on file in the Library of Congress. That he was successful in mining is accredited to his. inquiries regarding investments. in the Panama Railway and advice given on stocks and bonds for the Jonathan Meredith Co. Gil’s return to the states may have beena business ' one. Whether his father accompanied him or remained in Grass Valley until his return in the late summer of 1851 is not known; even their mining ventures in the Grass Valley area remains a mystery. The house, a sturdy and attractive cottage suitable to men accustomed to a more genteel and comfortable style of living, was erected on Mill Street during their residency in the town, possibly in 1852. : . The clapboard hotels of 1853 were notconstructed with any conveniences for women guests. Bed were built in tiers around the rooms. Privacy was limited, bunks being sufficient on which to rest a weary head and tired body.