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"More Than Gold" and "Lola Montez" (PH 12-B-1)(1965-1966) (53 pages)

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GRASS VALLEY UNION
October 2, 1965
Nevada Before Great Fire of 1856 and Rebuilt a Few Years Later
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W'LOOKING NORTHWESTWARD over Nevada and elong
f’ Broad and Main streets from Prospect Hill, (upper) as the
4. city appeared before the great fire of 1856. This rere lith.
Hograph was drawn from nature and on stone by Kuchel —
(} and Dresel, printed by Brittan and Rey and published by
j/J. E. Hanlin, bookseller of Nevada, located upstairs over
the W. G. Alban drug store. It was from this hill, a little to
the left that John and Abigail Williams stood on the site of
their long-planned home to view the destroyed city on July
19, 1856, Nevada was quickly rebuilt after the fire, as the
lower photo shows, again looking up Broad street and
Main street.