Nevada City: Gold Rush Era Town & Donner Party Relics
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Jeff and Sarah take this episode of History Hunters to the quaint Gold Rush era town of Nevada City in California's Nevada County and a surprise find of Donner Party relics in the town museum.
The town owes its founding to the gold mined here in the 1850s.
Jeff will check out the old fire stations, the art deco facade of City Hall built in 1937 and the Nevada County Courthouse. Stops will be made at the former assay office, the Nevada Brewery, Senator Aaron Sargent's house, Nevada Theatre, Kidd & Knox Building, National Exchange Hotel, the Pioneer Cemetery and the legendary Medicine Rock.
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Such great commentary and love how you bring a town alive. Thank you, too, for pointing out the neglect of such important graves. Kudos Jeff! I never miss your vlogs and always look forward to where your travels take you next.
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Thank you for showing so much respect to our ancestors who are buried in a lot of unmarked or unkept graves. One should walk through a cemetery at least once a month to remind ourselves how fragile life is. Well done.
Carnation milk,best in the land. Comes Inna tin with a red and white band. No teets to pull,no hay to pitch. Just poke two holes in the sonofab!+ch
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I was born in Nevada City, raised in Grass Valley..I share your videos on my FB page..you do a great job
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What a great historic town. I agree neglecting the pioneer section of the cemetery is disgraceful.
Thanks Jeff and Sarah we were in Marysville and Yuba City from the 1960 until August 1969 my Dad loved to explore and was fascinated with Grass Valley/Nevada City always stopped to read a plack on the wall. We spent a lot of time camping at White Cloud campground. About 15 miles east of White Cloud there was a small grave surrounded by a white picket fence along the highway it was a child that died on a wagon train in the 1800's the state preserved it when building the highway. Thanks for the great videos. Jim Bearden in Hayward California.
Another awesome look at history and the stories behind them.👋🇺🇲👋
This , like all your other video's is fenominal ( not sure if I spelled that correct or not ) but thank you . I can't imagine how hard it must be to come up with all this information Sunday after Sunday . THANK YOU FRANK FROM MONTANA.....
Thanks! Phenomenal is how it’s spelled. lol. So now you had a spelling lesson to go with your history lesson! All kidding aside, we so appreciate your very supportive comments, Frank! It’s a pleasure having you be a fan!
@@jbenziggy thank you Jeff , my teachers from school ( if still alive ) would be mad at me and probably would. Say " I never heard of that DUMMY ! , but Mabye just Mabye that's the way they spelled it in Walt Whitman High School in N.Y. way back in 1971 ! YA THINK ? Really I look forward to your work and my lesson on spelling every Sunday . THANK YOU FRANK FROM MONTANA......
Thanks Jeff and Sarah for showing us Nevada City. I have been there many times. I do like Grass Valley better for the classic "old town" feeling.
Nevada City certainly has that old town feeling as well but seems a bit smaller than Grass Valley. Thanks for the comment!
James F. Reed of Donner Party who survived the ordeal, moved to San Jose where he lived utill he died on July 24, 1874, at age 73. He is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. His great grandson later established Reeds Sporting Goods Store in San Jose which was in business for 60 years until it closed in 2016. I think it may have reopened with a gun range at a new location. I remember Reeds Sporting goods well. It was an excellent store! It sold quality products.
Great job in Nevada City Jeff and Sarah,
The Donner party display is also my favorite.
I have the " ordeal by hunger " which I have read several times about the Donner party.
Fascinating place. Always wanted to go - now I really want to go!
What a great video. Such a wonderful city with so much history. I agree with Sara that it is disgraceful not to keep that cometary clean. Don’t people understand that when they pass, they would want someone to care for their graves.
I'm a direct descendant of the Murphy/Foster family. The town of Marysville was named after Mary Murphy.
Marysville is such a beautiful town I'd pass through it many times on my way up to Chico.
I use to go there to watch the bicycle races around town it was pretty exciting unlike any bike race you ever seen
Loved the video. Would love to see more of Nevada City
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I believe the Pelton Wheel in this form was invented in Nevada City.
I would’ve loved to seen those Indian baskets that were in the museum as well
Jeff,
In your Nevada City episode, that is a Colt Model 1878 Double Action, manufactured 1878-1905.
Jim
What I truly wish you'd covered was the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe & their persistence despite the gold rush & mining in NV City.
You walked RIGHT PAST 'Uba Seo, the NCR Nisenan's FREE cultural & arts center and showed the Oddfellows Hall entrance next door instead.
You walked RIGHT PAST so many Nisenan baskets that aren't being returned to the Tribe, and focused only on the Donner Party items in the Fire Museum. Even a quick "these are indigenous-made basketry, of which I don't know the origin" would've been helpful to show to the audience.
You were in an area, on lands of a federally unrecognized tribe that was almost pushed to extinction, continues to fight against their language going extinct, had their rancheira sold at auction wrongfully in the 1960s, and then showed unkempt cemetery plots of descendants of the same people who pushed these people to extinction----aka Sutter. What about the graves of the Nisenan, unkempt, unmarked, and sometimes mass burial sites---where they were slaughtered at the hands of folks like Sutter, or as a result of federal boarding schools?
It's totally understood that you're not an expert in Indigenous topics, but you missed a whole bunch of info here, especially in this tiny town. Please consider the impact of how only showing specific parts of history is not only inaccurate, but it just is a rehash of the same thing that most historians do around here. Even with decent editing & music, this isn't NEW, but it could've been so much more if things were portrayed accurately & in a more well-rounded manner.
If we are to educate those on the past, we must educate ON THE WHOLE PAST, not just select info of those who colonized this area.
If you'd like reading material, here is specific info: scholars.csus.edu/esploro/outputs/graduate/Decolonizing-Sutter-County-reinterpreting-Nisenan-culture/99257831253601671#files_and_links
Edit: in the off chance 'Uba Seo was closed when you were there, even just a cursory Google Search or showing the existence of the Nisenan would've been more informative than this.
Learn more about the NCR Nisenan here: chirpca.org/
Please do a video on Nisenan history!
Sounds like you've done the research and have the interest to put together a presentation that we can watch and learn from. Be sure not to leave anything out.
Almond NY is in Allegheny county.
Love the old hotels!!!! GREAT SHOW!!!
Thanks!!!
Another gr8 history lesson on Nevada City, Cal.😊
Great video. Up to the 16 to 1 mine in Allegheny next?
Thank you Jeff and Sarah! I always give a thumbs even before I watch it! Yeah, it’s that good!
You're the best! Thanks so much!
Nice RACIST ass lil town. It would be a cool place to visit minus the Firehouse Saloon folks. Not gonna support with my money.
Great history video, Jeff! Did they have a lot of fires in those days because they used oil lamps and candles for lighting? Or was it something else that mainly started the fires?
Sarah, just love it, when you LAY DOWN THE LAW, regarding the cemetery; you GO, girl!!!
Another great video Jeff and Sarah, well done, especially the editing. I agree with Sarah, it is disgusting how they have let the pioneer cemetery go into such a state of disrepair.
HI Jeff...you probably know already that I LOVE that song by PLUTO..Great Video again, as usual..
Nice to see the ol place again. Lived there for a while back in the mid late seventies with my dad and family. He actually owned a restaurant in the middle of town for 2 or 3 years.
Thank you. This touched my heart when I saw the graveyard in such despair. I just proves life on earth is short and one should make the most of it.
Enjoyed your presentation very much! Probably the number one beverage consumed while watching is coffee 😊
Thank you! I actually don’t drink coffee but like the aroma! Glad you like our videos!
*with Irish cream 😉
Fun to learn stuff about Nevada City. I'm not sure if I've ever been but since I've found out that my dad is related to Franklin Roosevelt it is cool to hear about some of the history. (History takes on a whole new meaning when you discover people in your family and their history).
I just moved to Smartsville, California a few weeks ago. Next time you're up this way we should get lunch or dinner. I love history just like you do. Thanks for your dedication Jeff.
Hey Jeff, maybe come by for the Sunday Steam-Up on October 13 at the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Musuem. You can see the great museum and engine house plus we willl be running everything that day from 10am-3pm.
As usual your video brings back good memories for me.
From the days I lived in grass valley
Thank you so much
I need to get back uo there
My dad was buried at the Newcastle cemetery and I can go by there also
See you next week
When was the last time you visited his grave, Bobby?
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Wow, you outdid yourselves Jeff & Sarah! This was an amazing look back in history and I love your use of the black&white photos overlayed on the current subject you are sharing with us. Sad that the pioneer cemetery isn't kept up where the most important people lay at rest. The art deco era was so cool, I was born in the wrong era! Thanks for your research and presentation, I especially liked when you faded from talking about the old buildings to the cemetery stories. See ya next Sunday!
13:55 so it's his fault.
I was born there, 1948. Thanks for visiting and sharing facts I had no knowledge of. Since infancy, I've been back only once, and that was to see the Minors Hospital where I was born.
The court house, I went there on my 18 th birthday and registered to vote. I was going to Nevada Union Highschool at the time. My parents picked me up at took me there, it's a very nice place.
What a beautiful city!!! That old library reminds me of the one in Redlands, Ca where I was born and always considered home!!! It is still there today and where the Kimberly Clark mansion is!!! It is a beautiful town!!
Thanks for the memories. We have visited Nevad city several times, and it was wonderful seeing the old buildings again.
Always love mining history. I think that one piece was a drill. Not a hydronic nozzle. It did go by rather quickly. So couldn't identify for sure.
Wow what a great history lesson again for our Sunday afternoon. You always do such a fantastic job of bringing to light the history of a place, and remembering people. Nevada City is another place i want to visit. Thank you Jeff and Sarah!
Jeff and Sarah thank you so much for sharing this video Nevada City California looks like a fun place to visit. I love some of the old buildings because I live in an Old Town myself that has a lot of the same nice features that that town has. Little side note about Susan B Anthony, her brother Colonel Anthony owned a home in Leavenworth Kansas and his home is still standing to this day. It was stated that she did come to visit her brother and took care of him when he was very ill for a while. Great video, and thank you so much for sharing.
I love Sarah’s sentiment regarding the neglect of the pioneers’ cemetery.
Hi....love this vlog.... awesome historic town...the hotel and buildings are beautiful ...Sarah is right the old historic cemetery should be looked after ...the people buried in it...built the town....and deserve respect....thanks for vlogging this story......my grandparents old farm buildings are still standing and even though the family no longer owns the property...I would like to sneak into the old blacksmiths shop and see our old baby carriage is still there. I'm sure it is. this is back in the early 1920s...my grandparents moved there. (Not that we were born then LoL.). Deborah 🇨🇦
One of my favorite places to visit. used to go an taste wine there. nevada City Winery. some good wine.
Really enjoyed the trip and i agree with Sarah about the graves not takencare of, Very sad. Thanks for the trip and take care. Byeee
I remember a saying, "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" Graveyard upkeep.
Another great visit. I have a huge favor to ask...at the start of each visit, please show a map of where you are, especially in relation to the nearest major site. I like to know where you are, as it helps me feel like I'm traveling with you, so I always have to stop & look up placenames. ---Once again, I like that you are inserting a new variety of music! And yes, I am in agreement with the neglect in visible cemeteries. It would be a different story in long-forgotten cemeteries where there are no communities in the area. I saw the exact same scenario in Fredericksburg when my Sister & I were on vacation. Didn't understand how the 2 cemeteries were together, yet divided by a short metal fence. One tended, the other full of headstones and weeds.
If you could choose a time and place either anywhere in the United States or anywhere you have visited in the USA, when and where would that be?
Also, what would your trades likely to have been?
Questions for Jeff and Sarah both 😊
These are often asked amongst history buffs here on the UK where history goes back centuries
Would you like to have been.aboatd The Mayflower when she dropped anchor for the first time, or does Sarah like the comfort of basic mod cons too much?
Talk about "roughing it" over sea and not long after landing some few died.
Have you covered the graveyards in that specific area, Jeff? From and including 1620, there must be the oldest, standing gravestones in the USA.
Always love to learn about and see the history of the States.
Thank you both 😊
Your videos are always awesome. Thanks so much
One of my favorite old mining towns. There's a nice little railroad museum there also. A few years back in that museum with the Donner Party artifacts they actually had a few bones on display. Interesting but also creepy.
It was heartening to hear Sarah express her candid feelings about the condition of the historical part of the cemetery.
Great town. I’ve heard Hoover had ties to it, I’m surprised there wasn’t a marker for where he lived. But then again, a lot of miners lived in boarding houses in those days.
Hi Jeff and Sarah! After watching another great video, it made me think. What will the homes we grew up in, or live in now, look like in a hundred years if they survive. Will people look at them and say, wow, look how they built them then. The Modesto house I grew up in, I look at it on Google maps once in awhile, I see a few things from the street my dad did over 60 years ago. Painted the driveway green, not much left of the color. Still has the same mail box from the mid 1950's. Plus the rose bushes are still there. Thanks for keeping history alive with your videos and getting us to think about the past.
I agree with Sarah! Take care of the pioneer's graves! Respect those who went before us and helped to make what we have today possible. ❤
Thank You, wish more people were thoughtful of their local history and respect people who built their communities and past on.
I’ve always enjoyed seeing where someone once lived, where they worked, where they passed away and they are buried.
It’s amazing the condition of those old buildings and unfortunate of the condition of its pioneer cemetery.
Good morning! Awesome little town you’ve once again blessed us with. BTW, pay no attention to the dolt trying to educate us as to what is and what is not “shiplap”. Thank you for a wonderful Sunday morning! ❤
I totally agree with Sarah and the old cemetery. Once on top of it would only take a few hours a month to keep up with the maintenance 🤔😤🤨🇬🇧
I grew up in Nevada City, Grass Valley glad it’s still has a lot of old buildings
Nevada city is beautiful. I wish you'd mentioned more about the Nisenan
I love the Carnegie Libraries and the cool WPA buildings too.
The small-scale maintenance of cemeteries used to be something women helped do. But if you’ve come to see the patriarchy as something to be destroyed, you’re not going to care about memorials of patriarchs, even at the local level, sadly.
I’m with Sarah, it should be a matter of civic pride.
Well done!! I agree with Sarah! They should protect the heritage of our forefathers!!
Your commentary at 11:23...Wow...very powerful and well said. You keep exceeding yourself with better and better content every time.
Sarah is correct. It is a shame to see cemeteries and graves treated like that! I would like to see the local schools take over these neglected sites. What a great way to give to the community, learn and show respect to the people, and learn something about the people that helped shape the town they live in today, because some tomorrow, they might just be sharing the adjoining plot of dirt!
I live in nevada city and sometimes you forget how beautiful our buildings are when you're busy with everyday life! The first small building in the beginning was a run down stable when i was a kid, never heard it was a grocery store. It was falling apart and they restored it around 20 years ago. Thanks!
This was a great video! I have to get out to California sometime. I love towns that maintain their history and always think about all the lives lived in these places. The world is definitely a different place now. I would love to step back in time and experience it first hand. I agree with Sarah as well, I hate to see cemeteries neglected like that. Thanks for all the work you put into your videos. AL
Thank you so much for another tour of California's Gold Rush Country. I miss that area so much!
Nice looking town, got to get up there and see for myself one day. Sad that the neglected old historic cemetery is not kept up. Thanks for all your efforts in filming and research.
That is sad, people of history are forgotten and their graves are unkempt. These people are our history and help form this nation.
Hi jeff and sarah, I love love this history, I love little towns and the history behind this is awesome you did a great job. You are so right sarah I agree about the way the city has let the older cemetary go in decay. So sad to know all of that has gone to be forgotten by the city. Thankyou for covering this segment sarah and jeff. I enjoyed the ride along.
Wonderful video, I am going to a Navada City to my net road trip. And it's never too early to early for Halloween.
I agree with Sarah. They need to care for the gravesites of the people who made California what it is today!
Critical western history your keeping alive, thank you !
I was wondering when your next one was coming out Jeff! Another great one!
I want to find out more about that water powered elevator. And yeah the Outside Inn is funny 😊.
One of our favorite places, ,,,experienced a haunt or 2 in The Firehouse
Since I moved to Missouri, you've been showing towns I lived near or in for the vast amount of my life. I appreciate your work and interest in the Nevada/Placer/El Dorado counties and the recording of these places for posterity. Next time you come to Missouri, maybe you could educate me of the history I missed here when I was educated in CA.
This was a great tour of Nevada City. Thank you for showing us the present, as well as pointing out the historical perspectives. It was all so informative. I find the Donner Party info so riveting, too. I enjoy all of those, old photos, as well, Jeff. I love it when you include them, hard as I know as they must be to get... I have to agree with Sarah's assessment of part of the cemetery. This was all so interesting. Thank you both so much, for another great video, including all of the research, and on site visits, Jeff and Sarah.
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Thanks! Enjoyed this very much as always.
Great show. Sarah is correct about the old and new cemetery " clean up the old one. My grand parents are at a cemetery in Oregon that is needed to be cleaned up.
Great Video Jeff and Sarah! Grew up in Camp Meeker, live in Sonora. I have a saloon token from Sierra Nevada Saloon, Nevada City Ca Good for 5 cents in trade. Happen to see where it stood? Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for sharing, Jeff and Sarah
Our pleasure!
Great video on Nevada City... Lots of history there. I'm glad to see it still thriving. Sarah made a very good point on the cemetery. It needs to be cleaned... out of respect for the founders of that city. Thank you for sharing. Take care Jeff and Sarah. 🇺🇸
Thank u. It's been along time since I have been to Nevada city.
I heard about Hoover working in the mining industry from another U TUBER
aaron augustus sargent would be birthday yesterday same as mine sept 28
It's so sad to see that old graveyard being so neglected. No respect for the dead or the history 😢
From Paradise another gold mining town and Nevada city is great!
Thank you. Another very interesting history lesson.
I agree with Sarah!! How sad to let the pioneer part of the cemetery go like that.😢
Well done, learned lots from video. Thank you.
Thank you Jeff and Sara for another awesome video.
I so agree take care of those that came first for their families are gone also so they can’t
Good video thanks for sharing 😊