March 6, 1974 (8 pages)

} } . Peta naan neeeeeeiererse eee ee ee Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, So i ; i ill, S i : ae ; is ’ c »b 29 2G > , Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia ‘Willow Valley, Newtown, rece Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirinns i raniont, ocr ae PERLODICALS eupingetas QML, ST. LIBRARY SACTO. CAL. 95914 nevana commry NUE Ser: ng the communities of Nevada City; Grass Valley, <ed Dog, T: Ti ; i ‘ } ; sity, Gr : , ake eg, Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief: Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Si mimait City, (8 SRE SOLER APRN SAI INE AM ID NINE LES NEED IIR AD oA inipenreeannele~ eens §-16-74 v 1 AEN OLIN A LED GIGI RIE. ERNE OST pS iG etre tor se SES pee a Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North W alloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, VOLUME 49 Wednesday, March 6,1974 10 Cents A Copy needed by the Nugget Columnists are now being considered for positions of the Nugget staff. Grass Valley or outlying communities such as Washington, Alleghany, San Juan, Penn Valley, Sierra or other areas interested in writing a column for the paper please call 273-9561 and ask-for the Nugget editor. Columnists should work with other events of local interest. Send your material in the Nugget’s most popular North as e Alta own context as that of any other and are facet George Says: You Need ’Em! We Got ’Em! ~ Huge Selection of New and Used 4-Wheel Drive Vehicles In a wide price range to suit every pocketbook ts MEIER Chev.-Olds Hiway 49 at Brunswick Road Grass Valley — 273-9535 I solicited funds for the construction of the first churches ~ Mon. Sat: 8 to dark! Columnists Nevada county churches By PHYLLIS L. SMITH Just as many an early Saint had to. withstand ‘‘trial by fire’ to prove his enduring faith; so did. most of the early Churches _ in Nevada County rise from ¢ their own ashes, in some cases § several times, to testify to the % . eridurance of the faithfu! among j If you live in Nevada City; the first settlers of this new a frontier. The story of these edifices is xciting and romantic in its of our area history.because it is the story of men of vision; men perhaps drawn to California by tales of its golden harvests, but who later found a meaning in life In the storied treks West came not only. those of the cloth representing, in missionary zeal and ambition, practically every denomination you might care to name. ” Their first services were heldi in the open.on gold camp; streets, where they recruited their congregations and seen in these parts. According to information, compiled by Sven Skaar, for a7 Nevada County Historical@ Society Bulletin published in 1955, one of these “‘men of God’’ was Rev. James H, Warren, a Congregationalist. He and his wife, Emily, ‘‘searched the streets for followers from the day in April, 1851, when they arrived in Nevada City, until September 28th of that same’ year, when as an organized church with 21 men as a congregation, they were able to move into their own little clapboard chapel on Main Street.” T Four years later there arose on that site a fine ‘‘wellappointed -frame church from whose tower a sweet-toned bell chimed éach Sunday.” As historian Skaar tells the tale."‘In the terrible fire of 1856, went the church and the sweet-toned bell, and the 1 records but not the courage of Pastor Warren and his wife.”’ They obtained the. use of Temperance Hall and started mining§ and bent.there were those who} perhaps you will become one of were farmers, lawyers, doctors, # engineers, merchants and men = ONE OF GRASS VALLEY'S early Nevada City church. upon a course of action that was to see a bigger and better edifice constructed of brick and mortar. This new church was dedicated and the cornerstone laid in solemn ceremony in July of 1857 and during the following January services were held within its hallowed walls. Soon thereafter, sad to tell, fare blackened Nevada City but happily the new church was left untouched by its flames. By 1863 this steadily growing church had gained the reputation of being one of the most important houses of worship in the _ entire West.among its popular items was a library of well over a thousand carefully selected CHURCHES is the Wesleyan Methodist Church at 453 South Auburn Street. This week Phyllis Smith begins a series of articles on local churches of interest. Her first article, on this page of the Nugget, deals with an books.availabfé to the public. Within an hour of the close of services on a_fateful day in November of that year, that beautiful house of worship, often termed ‘‘indestructable,” stood as a gutted ruin.along with most of the rest of Nevada City. Reconstruction was begun as soon as weather permitted and by the summer of 1864 the interior had been refurbished, new paint applied, a book collection started for a new library and the Sunday school reopened. In 1867 there were more than 400 volumes in the library. and the Sunday school was boasting of a membership of 174 students, 16 teachers, six officers and a missionary and temperance organization. Among the notable men who served as the church pastors over those early years was the Rev. Josiah H. Sims whose service to God and his fellow men was from June 14, 1874 until June 1, 1914. Following his retirement the church was disbanded and the Congregational Church of Grass Valley absorbed the small congregation remaining into its community of worshipers. In next. week’s Nugget the story of the Nevada City Baptist Church will be told in cameo.and will answer the question asked by a reader recently about the fate of the original Congregational Church brick building.

} } . Peta naan neeeeeeiererse eee ee ee Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, So i ; i ill, S i : ae ; is ’ c »b 29 2G > , Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia ‘Willow Valley, Newtown, rece Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirinns i raniont, ocr ae PERLODICALS eupingetas QML, ST. LIBRARY SACTO. CAL. 95914 nevana commry NUE Ser: ng the communities of Nevada City; Grass Valley, <ed Dog, T: Ti ; i ‘ } ; sity, Gr : , ake eg, Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief: Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Si mimait City, (8 SRE SOLER APRN SAI INE AM ID NINE LES NEED IIR AD oA inipenreeannele~ eens §-16-74 v 1 AEN OLIN A LED GIGI RIE. ERNE OST pS iG etre tor se SES pee a Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North W alloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, VOLUME 49 Wednesday, March 6,1974 10 Cents A Copy needed by the Nugget Columnists are now being considered for positions of the Nugget staff. Grass Valley or outlying communities such as Washington, Alleghany, San Juan, Penn Valley, Sierra or other areas interested in writing a column for the paper please call 273-9561 and ask-for the Nugget editor. Columnists should work with other events of local interest. Send your material in the Nugget’s most popular North as e Alta own context as that of any other and are facet George Says: You Need ’Em! We Got ’Em! ~ Huge Selection of New and Used 4-Wheel Drive Vehicles In a wide price range to suit every pocketbook ts MEIER Chev.-Olds Hiway 49 at Brunswick Road Grass Valley — 273-9535 I solicited funds for the construction of the first churches ~ Mon. Sat: 8 to dark! Columnists Nevada county churches By PHYLLIS L. SMITH Just as many an early Saint had to. withstand ‘‘trial by fire’ to prove his enduring faith; so did. most of the early Churches _ in Nevada County rise from ¢ their own ashes, in some cases § several times, to testify to the % . eridurance of the faithfu! among j If you live in Nevada City; the first settlers of this new a frontier. The story of these edifices is xciting and romantic in its of our area history..because it is the story of men of vision; men perhaps drawn to California by tales of its golden harvests, but who later found a meaning in life In the storied treks West came not only. those of the cloth representing, in missionary zeal and ambition, practically every denomination you might care to name. ” Their first services were heldi in the open.on gold camp; streets, where they recruited their congregations and seen in these parts. According to information, compiled by Sven Skaar, for a7 Nevada County Historical@ Society Bulletin published in 1955, one of these “‘men of God’’ was Rev. James H, Warren, a Congregationalist. He and his wife, Emily, ‘‘searched the

streets for followers from the day in April, 1851, when they arrived in Nevada City, until September 28th of that same’ year, when as an organized church with 21 men as a congregation, they were able to move into their own little clapboard chapel on Main Street.” T Four years later there arose on that site a fine ‘‘wellappointed -frame church from whose tower a sweet-toned bell chimed éach Sunday.” As historian Skaar tells the tale.."‘In the terrible fire of 1856, went the church and the sweet-toned bell, and the 1 records but not the courage of Pastor Warren and his wife.”’ They obtained the. use of Temperance Hall and started mining§ and bent..there were those who} perhaps you will become one of were farmers, lawyers, doctors, # engineers, merchants and men = ONE OF GRASS VALLEY'S early Nevada City church. upon a course of action that was to see a bigger and better edifice constructed of brick and mortar. This new church was dedicated and the cornerstone laid in solemn ceremony in July of 1857 and during the following January services were held within its hallowed walls. Soon thereafter, sad to tell, fare blackened Nevada City but happily the new church was left untouched by its flames. By 1863 this steadily growing church had gained the reputation of being one of the most important houses of worship in the _ entire West..among its popular items was a library of well over a thousand carefully selected CHURCHES is the Wesleyan Methodist Church at 453 South Auburn Street. This week Phyllis Smith begins a series of articles on local churches of interest. Her first article, on this page of the Nugget, deals with an books..availabfé to the public. Within an hour of the close of services on a_fateful day in November of that year, that beautiful house of worship, often termed ‘‘indestructable,” stood as a gutted ruin..along with most of the rest of Nevada City. Reconstruction was begun as soon as weather permitted and by the summer of 1864 the interior had been refurbished, new paint applied, a book collection started for a new library and the Sunday school reopened. In 1867 there were more than 400 volumes in the library. and the Sunday school was boasting of a membership of 174 students, 16 teachers, six officers and a missionary and temperance organization. Among the notable men who served as the church pastors over those early years was the Rev. Josiah H. Sims whose service to God and his fellow men was from June 14, 1874 until June 1, 1914. Following his retirement the church was disbanded and the Congregational Church of Grass Valley absorbed the small congregation remaining into its community of worshipers. In next. week’s Nugget the story of the Nevada City Baptist Church will be told in cameo..and will answer the question asked by a reader recently about the fate of the original Congregational Church brick building.