Nevada City, The “Queen City of the Northern Mines”

National Register of Historic Places

Nevada City, the “Queen City of the Northern Mines”, became a town of 16,000 in the early 1850’s following the discovery of gold on Deer Creek in 1849. Here is located the largest and best preserved ...

Nevada City

Nine booming gold camps sprawled along remote Alder Gulch in 1863. Nevada City and Virginia City were the largest. In December, 1863, Nevada City’s main street was the scene of the miner’s court and hanging of George Ives. This event ...

Emigrant Trail to Nevada City

In 1850, the year after the fabulous gold strike on Deer Creek in Nevada City, the Overland Emigrant Trail branched off the original Bear River route at Bear Valley, climbed Washington Ridge and passed this point on its way to ...

National Historic Landmark- Virginia City, Nevada

[Located in the center of town is a monument on which there is mounted six markers commemorating historical events and people of Virginia City]

West Side - Front of Monument:

In June of 1859 in Gold Canyon, a second group of Prospectors ...

Nevada City Methodist Church

Historic

Nevada City Methodist Church

Dedicated in 1864

Now one of the oldest

existing churches

Marker is on Broad Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Nevada City Public Library

Library Association formed December 19, 1857, first library was in Kidd Knox Bldg. 228 Broad St., it was moved to Oustomah Lodge I.O.O.F. No. 16, June 3, 1874. Nevada City Trustees assumed responsibilities Oct. 1, 1902 and was moved into ...