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The Nevada Foundry was built to serve the needs of loggers and California Gold Rush miners who were working mines in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Nevada City's fire of July 1856 destroyed the small foundry operated by Coker. Afterwards, he acquired a new site on the corner of Bridge and Spring streets and began construction on a new building ...
Roger Hodgson chronology. Hai Hai. (1987) Rites of Passage. (1997) Open the Door. (2000) Rites of Passage is the third album by Roger Hodgson, recorded in August 1996 near Hodgson's home in Nevada City, California and his first live album. It was the last gig of several Californian dates in the summer of 1996.
Nevada City is located at 39°15′41″N121°01′07″W / 39.261435°N 121.018602°W[ 16 ] at 2,500 feet above sea level. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 2.2 square miles (5.7 km 2), 99.83% of it land and 0.17% water. Nevada, Missouri, is named after Nevada City.
Added to NRHP. September 23, 1985. The Nevada City Downtown Historic District is a 16-acre (6.5 ha) historic district in Nevada City within the U.S. state of California. Located in Nevada County, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It dates from 1917, with examples of Moderne and Italianate architecture. [2]
Lester Allan Pelton (September 5, 1829 – March 14, 1908) was an American inventor who contributed significantly to the development of hydroelectricity and hydropower in the American Old West as well as world-wide. In the late 1870s, he invented the Pelton water wheel, at that time the most efficient design of the impulse water turbine.
The couple — who met on the set of Days of Our Livesand began dating in 2013 — tied the knot on Saturday, Aug. 17, at Jacob's Berry Farm in Gardnerville, Nevada. Casey Simon Arianne Zucker and ...
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73000418. Added to NRHP. April 11, 1973 [1] Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park is a state park unit preserving Malakoff Diggins, the largest hydraulic mining site in California, United States. The mine was one of several hydraulic mining sites at the center of the 1882 landmark case Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company. [2]