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Volume 025-3 - July 1971 (4 pages)
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The material for this bulletin by
Dr. Robert E. Levinson, was taken
from his address delivered at the
re-dedication of the Grass Valley
Jewish Cemetery.
Dr. Levinson is Assistant Professor of History, San Jose State
College, and is an authority on Jewish Pioneer History.
Footnotes ere not published due to
space limitation although the original
manuscript {s complete and on file
with the Nevada County Historical
Society Library. C, H. Lee Editor.
THE LONE PINE
With roots exposed, this tree stood
for many years in Hirschman’s Diggings, a symbol of courage against
the onslaughts of hydraulic mining,
Although the Native Sons anchored
it with supporting chains, the old
tree, in time, tottered and fell into
the diggings.
OFFICERS OF THE NEVADA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
President Arlie Hansen Grass Valley
Vice President Chester Mell Grass Valley
2nd Vice President Fayne Dunbar Rough & Ready
Secretary Esther Hartung Grass Valley
Treasurer Winifred Creegan Nevada City
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:Nevada County Historical Society
Vol. 25 No. 3 JULY 1971
Steve Chileski Grass Valley
Glen Jones Grass Valley
Mario Genteli Grass Valley
Lea Pengelly Grass Valley
Adelaide Elliot Nevada City
Roman Rozynski Nevada City
Pat Nelson Nevada City
Peg. Merrill Nevada City
Louise Dudley French Corral
Faye Dunbar Rough & ready
THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF GRASS VALLEY, NEVADA CITY
AND VICINITY BY DR. ROBERT E. LEVINSON
L. HIRSCHMAN
Hirschman, Grover & Co. purchased the American Hill diggings
near Lost Hill, Nevada City, in 1866.
Not having a sufficient fall to work
the ground, they spent four years in
driving a tunnel at a cost of $25,000.
From 1872 to 1880, the company worked the adjoining Oustomah Hill. The
glory-hole of water seen today in these
workings is still known as Hirschman’s Diggings.
(Mrs. James Christie collection.)
HIRSHMAN’S DIGGINGS AS SEEN
TODAY
The Nevada County Historical Society in this bulletin honors the memory
of authentic pioneers who helped to
settle the West and bring both necesssities of life and the comforts of
civilization to this area.
The Jews who came to Nevada
County in the early years of the
gold rush, following Marshall’s original discovery in 1848, were al] born
in Europe. Their parents had received civil rights in the first decade
of the nineteenth century, but in 1835,
the gloomy specter of anti-Semitism
was witnessed once again with the
declaration by the city of Frankfurt
limiting the number of Jewish marrfages to fifteen per year. A few
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