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Volume 056-3 - July 2002 (6 pages)
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NCHS Bulletin July 2002
Marin. The four Evans children were brown and barefoot as
we always were in summer.
Newmont employees also lived there (Newmont had purchased the North Star Mine.). Charles Newlove and his
wife and children lived in the Hague House and Sallie and
Bob Fulton lived in the North Star Cottage (now burned
down). During World War II when the mines were closed,
the house was rented to an Army family, the Clarks, with
several nice children. We missed them when they left for
Texas.
Then there was a woman who taught me to quilt and who
liked to write messages on the rocks in the woods. My
mother, who had a large imagination, suspected her of
being a spy. I can’t remember the names of the last family
there, but he later became city manager of Reno. When the
husband of my sister Janet was killed in the Philippines, she
moved into the house with her two children and Helen
Bontecou.
There was another tragedy in the house, during the Newmont period (Newmont Mining Company bought several
mines in the area, including the North Star Mine). A Newmont engineer with the unfortunate name of Banghart shot
and killed himself in the house.
Janet married Tyler Micoleau and they lived in the house
until Tyler finished remodeling his cabin on Banner Mountain. Helen Bontecou purchased The Gallery on Commercial Street in Nevada City. It became an art center and
Helen, along with David Osborn and Charles Woods, had
much to do with making Nevada City a mecca for artists.
The mines closed (in 1956) and Newmont made the
North Star property surrounding the North Star House into
the Boyce Thompson Experimental Forest. The numerous
Arthur B. Foote (right) in deep
conversation inside the Hague
House with his cousin,
Gerald Sherman, who was
employed at the Empire Mine.
prospect holes were filled, the pine beetle eradicated and
the forest was maintained like a park. The man in charge,
Mr. Vite, lived in the Hague House with his wife and beautiful twin daughters. They built the swimming pool, the remains of which can still be seen. Then the property was
sold to developers. For several years they rented it out to
people who cared for it (more or less), but now it is empty
and badly vandalized.
James D. Hague (son of “Billy’’) in a dual portrait with
Sydney Wood (right), a young tennis-playing friend from
You Bet, California, who won the mens singles tennis
championship at Wimbledon in 1931.