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Nevada County Historical Society
Bulletin
Volume 52, No. 3 July 1998
The Grass Valley Veterans Memorial Building
by Cliff Bowen
ie
O, JANUARY 18, 1927, A COMMITTEE was formed
by the Hague-Thomas-Hegarty Post 130 of the American
Legion to investigate the possibility of constructing a Veterans Memorial Building in Grass Valley. In the prior year the
Hegarty Post 134 of Nevada City, which had been meeting
min the Armory building on Broad Street, combined with the
Hague-Thomas Post 130 in order to serve Nevada County
as one unit. The Grass Valley Legion had been formed in
November of 1919 at the Bret Harte Hotel; met a few times
at the Grass Valley Elks lodge, and then moved into “The
(Photo by Bedford Lampkin)
Legion Room” of the Grass Valley Library until the building was completed.
On May 2, 1927, committee members appeared before
the Nevada County Board of Supervisors to ask the board
to establish a Veterans Tax District for the express purpose
of constructing the Memorial Building. The supervisors
agreed to the tax.
In the first week of April 1928 the American Legion
started a building fund drive, and after searching for a suitable lot, the building committee presented three proposed
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