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Collection: Directories and Documents > Pamphlets

Directory and Guide to the City of Nevada (PH 1-3)(1946) (61 pages)

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OUR TOWN (Continued) History does not substantiate the following opinion, although it might appear a logical conjecture, but it seems probably that in Nevada City’s youthful and hoydenish days the townspeople may have grouped themselves, building their homes among their own kind. The church folk on Piety Hill, the big shots on Aristocracy Hill, the miners on Prospect Hill, and the two-fisted, elbow-bending gentry on Wet Hill. What Lost Hill accommodated, who can tell, but it must have been something pretty bellicose, a hill being so much harder to lose than a weekend. Through town amid the old streets and buildings slip the ghosts of many whose names are famous. Lola Montez, fresh from the Courts of Austria, her pretty head filled with the echoes of political intrigue, came to live in Grass Valley, surrounded by her beaux, her dovecots and tame bears. She visited Nevada City frequently and became much attached to Lotta Crabtree, then a little child, and taught her her first dance steps. Even then Lotta was entertaining the miners with her songs and recitations. The gold they showered at her baby feet helped her to fame and fortune. Emma Nevada, the nightingale, whose glorious voice brought pleasure to so many in her lifetime was born in the little town of Omega a few miles from Nevada City. Old Block (Alonzo Delano) penned and published his poems and his lyrics here, sentimental ballads, dear to the hearts of lonely miners and prospectors. In Historic Nevada City it's The Hut for your drinking pleasure ete Te — .