Newspaper Notes - 1850s (NN-18.5)(1850s) (336 pages)

y “ faaor tele Just Where Was _ Ae 1851 Courthouse? ‘. ® The story -is told of a poor unfortunate miner, iwhose body was found in the bed of a creek along the trail out of Nevada City, and pinned on the coat was a suicide note which read: “Whoever finds my body, if it has not gone back to its original elements, will, if it taxes not his humanity too much, dig a hole and cover it with clean earth jand there let it rot, without rock or mound to mark the place. It is only an . atom, that of its own ac‘cord goes back from whence it came. Whilst it dwelt on earth it found men rogues and women false. It inspired hate and treachery, but could not compass love. There is no one left to mourn or rejoice; and if there is a hereafter, it will at least have repose from the clack of idle tongues.”. i: (From Hallowed Were, the’ Gold Dust Trails—Henry \L. Walsh, S. ‘ The only evidence to be found as to the exact site of the 1851 court house is in H, P. Davis’ book, “Gold Rush Days in Nevada City”. Davis says that the wooden structure “was a small building on Broad Street foxrmerly the Hotel deParis.” Ao (Eaqle Hote! Thompson and West’s “History of Nevada County” merely states that a wooden court house and(log jail were constructed on Broad Street. ve Ff TEL At_20 Broad Street Allan R. Ottley, California Section Librarian of the State Library, was able to clear up the question of exactly where on Broad Street the 1851 wooden court house stood. Ottley found a reference to the early court house in Brown and Dallison’s Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready directory of 1856 listing the old court house (the 1851 structure) as 20 Broad Street and the new court house eresent Site) as the corner of Washington and Pine treets. ; : Bean’s History and Director of Nevada County, 1867, mentions the two sites. “The Court House was a small wooden building near Sanford’s store, Velae pet J.) ' Nevada ‘City 1852 Vividly Described Nevada City, 1852, was er boxes for chairs, the only place the miner could described by the pioneer .1] home.. priest of Nevada County, “« ther John Shanahan: en either side of the yld trail, which had been yidened into a makeshift street, there appeared, hatily thrown together, a majority drinking, gamb-. Eight bids aixture of frame struct. great freight wagons drawn by ten or twelve) ‘oxen were arriving daily-—> In the Jan. from Sacramento; there were at least 3,000 miners: in town continually, the} ling and carousing; the . on Broad Street, till 1854, when the present site was purchased. The jail was a log structure nearly Opposite the old Court House, and nearly on the site of the city calaboose. The selection of the site of the present Court House was owing to rivalry of streets. Broad street was supposed to desire the Court House located somewhere near the Methodist Church. To thwart the wishes of Broad Street, a number of persons on Main Street raised nearly all the money to purchase the plot of ground on which the Court House and jail now stand.” In another section of the directory, “The Court House and jail were built in the summer of 1855” and a few lines further on: “All the churches, and the Court House were consumed” in the July 19, 1856 fire. ; 19, 1855 edition of the San Francisco Alta California the following items appeared. “Nevada Court House—On Wednesday last, proposals for building a Court House at Nevada were opened, in all were put in, the highest being $40,000. The contract was awarded to William res of all sizes and (,576 for indulging in card Moore, who proposes to construct peas aus s, serving for stores, ary hotels, pene ng halls, and saloons. The »mainder of the area Ls ynspicuous for its Bae ring of dingy old can a yoths and rudely ne cucted cabins, devon i ass windows, with ha ards for beds and crackin and games of) ae eae universal, and gold dust was thrown around recklessly with abandon, great sums being wagered, even on the outcome of a dog fight. A (From “Hallowed Were the Gold Dust Trails”—Henry L. Walsh, S.J.) [LX 4 $23,500, and to have it finished September next.” ‘~The June 6, 1856 Alta states, “Court House Soldihe old courthouse at Nevada has been sold by the Bheriff for $760. It will hereafter be used asa bost-office.” On the first of.

y “ faaor tele Just Where Was _ Ae 1851 Courthouse? ‘. ® The story -is told of a poor unfortunate miner, iwhose body was found in the bed of a creek along the trail out of Nevada City, and pinned on the coat was a suicide note which read: “Whoever finds my body, if it has not gone back to its original elements, will, if it taxes not his humanity too much, dig a hole and cover it with clean earth jand there let it rot, without rock or mound to mark the place. It is only an . atom, that of its own ac‘cord goes back from whence it came. Whilst it dwelt on earth it found men rogues and women false. It inspired hate and treachery, but could not compass love. There is no one left to mourn or rejoice; and if there is a hereafter, it will at least have repose from the clack of idle tongues.”. i: (From Hallowed Were, the’ Gold Dust Trails—Henry \L. Walsh, S. ‘ The only evidence to be found as to the exact site of the 1851 court house is in H, P. Davis’ book, “Gold Rush Days in Nevada City”. Davis says that the wooden structure “was a small building on Broad Street foxrmerly the Hotel deParis.” Ao (Eaqle Hote! Thompson and West’s “History of Nevada County” merely states that a wooden court house and(log jail were constructed on Broad Street. ve Ff TEL At_20 Broad Street Allan R. Ottley, California Section Librarian of the State Library, was able to clear up the question of exactly where on Broad Street the 1851 wooden court house stood. Ottley found a reference to the early court house in Brown and Dallison’s Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready directory of 1856 listing the old court house (the 1851 structure) as 20 Broad Street and the new court house eresent Site) as the corner of Washington and Pine treets. ; : Bean’s History and Director of Nevada County, 1867, mentions the two sites. “The Court House was a small wooden building near Sanford’s store, Velae pet J.) ' Nevada ‘City 1852 Vividly Described Nevada City, 1852, was er boxes for chairs, the only place the miner could

described by the pioneer .1] home... priest of Nevada County, “« ther John Shanahan: en either side of the yld trail, which had been yidened into a makeshift street, there appeared, hatily thrown together, a majority drinking, gamb-. Eight bids aixture of frame struct. great freight wagons drawn by ten or twelve) ‘oxen were arriving daily-—> In the Jan. from Sacramento; there were at least 3,000 miners: in town continually, the} ling and carousing; the . on Broad Street, till 1854, when the present site was purchased. The jail was a log structure nearly Opposite the old Court House, and nearly on the site of the city calaboose. The selection of the site of the present Court House was owing to rivalry of streets. Broad street was supposed to desire the Court House located somewhere near the Methodist Church. To thwart the wishes of Broad Street, a number of persons on Main Street raised nearly all the money to purchase the plot of ground on which the Court House and jail now stand.” In another section of the directory, “The Court House and jail were built in the summer of 1855” and a few lines further on: “All the churches, and the Court House were consumed” in the July 19, 1856 fire. ; 19, 1855 edition of the San Francisco Alta California the following items appeared. “Nevada Court House—On Wednesday last, proposals for building a Court House at Nevada were opened, in all were put in, the highest being $40,000. The contract was awarded to William res of all sizes and (,576 for indulging in card Moore, who proposes to construct peas aus s, serving for stores, ary hotels, pene ng halls, and saloons. The »mainder of the area Ls ynspicuous for its Bae ring of dingy old can a yoths and rudely ne cucted cabins, devon i ass windows, with ha ards for beds and crackin and games of) ae eae universal, and gold dust was thrown around recklessly with abandon, great sums being wagered, even on the outcome of a dog fight. A (From “Hallowed Were the Gold Dust Trails”—Henry L. Walsh, S.J.) [LX 4 $23,500, and to have it finished September next.” ‘~The June 6, 1856 Alta states, “Court House Soldihe old courthouse at Nevada has been sold by the Bheriff for $760. It will hereafter be used asa bost-office.” On the first of.