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Volume 054-1 - January 2000 (8 pages)
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NCHS Bulletin January 2000
Very few of the scores of cabins that I remembered as
dotting the flats land low hill sides were to be seen, most
of them having burned or fallen into decay. Also a heavy
second growth of brush and trees had changed the region
into something akin to a wilderness and made it almost
unrecognizable to old timers like myself. Even many of the
roads and trails that I remembered so well were abandoned
and choked with brush. The old main road leading over the
San Juan Ridge had changed in favor of a new route and
easier grades. There was little in the way of landmarks that
I could recognize.
I found Nevada City had changed greatly and had become beautiful with many attractive homes with lawns and
shade trees and fruit trees had taken the place of the old
sugar pines.
In 1923 he wrote about other changes that had occurred at the
turn of the century:
It seems our once beautiful home had become a lake, an
artificial one. Our ranch, a beautiful little mountain valley
of rich soil, was found to be rich in gold. After being
worked over several times, a dam was constructed at the
lower end of the valley some thirty years ago, covering the
entire valley and the ground that our house stood on. Lake
Vera, as this lake in now known, is used for a power plant.
Remembrance H. Campbell with young Charles M. Campbell Jr. and Elizabeth Neel Campbell in the summer of
1920 at Santa Cruz, California. (Photo Copyright © 1998
Charles Morris Campbell.)
The residence of John S. Dunn at Selby Flat, as drawn by
an artist in 1880. (From History of Nevada County by Wells.)
piped water into town; Judges Caswell and Belden; attorneys Niles Searls and J. Neely Johnson; “Cheap John,” an
auctioneer who kept Commercial Street alive by auctioning
off his wares such as boots, shoes, clothing, and trinkets;
and “Blaze,” whose weight exceeded 400 pounds. He was
first an agent for the old Califonia Stage Company and later
opened a saloon at the corner of Pine and Commercial
Streets. He also describes two rather hilarious Fourth of July
celebrations in 1853 and 1854.
In 1860 the family moved to Yolo County, but Remembrance remained in Nevada City until 1862, when he left to
do some mining in British Columbia and in Siskiyou
County, California. He made a return visit to Nevada City in
1888, twenty-six years after he had moved away:
I stopped at the home of John Hall on Brush Creek. We
walked down toward the sight of my old home and in our
conversation, Mr. Hall told me that while the entire
length of Brush Creek had been worked over several
times during his thirty-nine years of residence there on
the creek, there were still spots which contained considerable gold and would pay to work again.