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Historical Clippings Book (HC-12) (520 pages)

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y Scenes at D JOSEPH R. KNOWLAND (top left), chairman of the Ca cation of an official marker, plaque and boulder base, Legg and Ed Fellersen gram, completing an ei a few steps from the m Omega, shown at the dedicati {(Photos by Ross Hermann). — ay q ” ~ SS SS ead 3S lifornia Parks Commissio edication of Plaque Marking Alpha and Omega Mining at ee a 35 “Unigny 2 1) yep Hl ‘OWNS © } n, who was the principal speaker at the dedicommemorating the former hydrailic mining towns of Alpha and Omega, stends beside the which had just been unveiled, early last Sunday afternoon at a vie (top right), the latter president of the Nevada County Historical Socict ceremonies with the Division of Beaches and Parks, jointly un-veil the marker and monument wpoint off Highway 20. George . co-sponsor of the dedication at the height of Sunday’s proght-year project. Lower left — a view of Alpha and Omega hydraulic diggings from the viewpoint, just arker. Lower right—George Legg and Fanny Holland, two of three known surviving natives of historic ALPHA AND OMEGA i 2 Alpha was settled in as fyamaulle camp, as was Omega s mile and a half away by roug' trail. Omega saw ravine diggings in 1851 but changed to hydrau‘licking the following year. Both . have passed into oblivion. The roll of honor in the Omega school for the month of October included Susie Shaw, Annie Feeny, Francis Costella, Alice Lyons, Mary Ann Manix, Josephine Costella, Delia Lyons, Jennie Lyons, James Lyons, Bennie McClintock, James Cramer, Alack McCambridge, Wash Cramer and Emmet Costella. '/3//675 Ari , on program, They are residents of Nevada City. They were born in Omego in the early ‘70's,.