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Volume 073-1 - January 2019 (6 pages)
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Page: of 6
It Was the Pride of
Nevada County — Missing Gold
Quartz Monument Mystery Ends
By Maria E. Brower
T WAS THE PRIDE OF NEVADA COUNTY and it
pre-dated two of Nevada County’s most well-known
and important historical monuments by a number of
years. The Donner Monument was dedicated at Donner
Memorial State Park, eight miles west of Truckee in
1918. The Gold Quartz Discovery Monument placed at
Gold Hill in Grass Valley was completed and dedicated
in 1929 by local Quartz Parlor No. 58, Native Sons of
the Golden West, and Manzanita Parlor No. 29, Native
Daughters of the Golden West to commemorate the first
gold in Quartz found in California by George McKnight
in October of 1850.
There is no physical evidence left of Nevada County’s
first historical Gold Quartz Monument except for a
‘Nevada County Historical society
Bulletin
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few photographs in books on railroad history and a
few rare postcards. It was the first monument erected
in the county and at the time it was known as “the
pride of Nevada County.” Probably the most unusual
fact about the monument was that it wasn’t placed in
Nevada County, but, in nearby Colfax, Placer County — on purpose. This is the story of the mystery of
what became of the monument, the development and
movement behind it by the efforts of the local boost
organizations and the community efforts that brought
it to completion.
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This photo postcard is depicted as a very stern sheriff standing in front of the Nevada County Quartz Monument after a sign was placed
above the words “Nevada County Exhibit” that read “$50 reward for information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of anyone
defacing the monument.” Problems began shortly after the monument was erected with all the shiny “gold” that glittered in the quartz
rock. (Courtesy of Colfax Heritage Museum.)