Museums and Historic Parks
Emigrant Trail Museum Located on the campsite of the Donner Wagon Party Please call for days and hours open. Fee to Enter. |
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Firehouse No. 1 Historic Museum 214 Main St, Nevada City. Collection of Nevada County 19th Century artifacts and memorabilia, Chinese Joss House, Maidu Indian artifacts, Donner Party artifacts, and other displays including tools, medical instruments, military uniforms, clothing & accessories, household itmes and toys. Original firehouse, Firehouse NO. 1 is the most photographed and artistically painted in Nevada City. Volunteer staff docents provided by Nevada County Historical Society. |
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Grass Valley Museum--St.
Joseph's Cultural Center 410 S. Church St, Grass Valley Part of the old Mount Saint Mary's Convent and Academy.
Numerous |
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Historic Nevada County
Courthouse 201 Church St, Nevada City. |
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Lola Montez House 248 Mill Street, Grass Valley |
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Lotta Crabtree House Mill Street, Grass Valley |
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Miners Foundry Cultural
Center> 325 Spring St, Nevada City. |
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North Columbia Schoolhouse
Cultural Center 17894 Tyler Foote Crossing Road, Nevada City. |
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North Star Mining Museum Allison Ranch Rd at Mc Courtney Rd, Grass Valley |
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Western America Skisport
Museum Boreal Ridge Ski Area, Donner Pass This is a sports history museum with a memorial to Snow-Shoe Thompson, memorabilia from the Western North America Skisport Hall of Fame, ski history and manuscript collections. One of the best collections of antique ski/snowshoe equipment. |
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State Parks | |
Empire Mine State Historic
Park
10791 Empire Street, Grass Valley, CA 95945 Oldest and richest hard rock mine in California, which yielded 5.8 million ounces of gold before it closed in 1956. Park includes a mine shaft, mine yard, scale model of mine, and a machine shop. Tours of the historic Bourn Cottage and gardens, walk down into a mine shaft, view a mine history film, displays, docent programs, gift shop. For those searching in the Grass Valley area who have information that their ancestor was employed by the Empire Mine, this is a good place to start your research. Photographs of employees from 1930 are available with a name index and reference numbers. Transcripts of interviews and historical information from the local libraries also available. It is necessary to complete a form with the information on the ancestor you are seeking. This form is only available from the Visitors Center at the park. The form is then submitted and a committee will review it and let you know when you can come in to view the photographs and other information on your ancestor. All of this employee information belongs to the Park Association and not the State Park Department. |
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Malakoff Diggins State
Park 23579 North Bloomfield Road,
Nevada City CA 95959 About 26 miles northeast of Nevada City. Once California's largest hydraulic mining operations, the North Bloomfield Museum has extensive exhibits and several restored buildings. Only steep cliffs remain where huge monitors once directed streams of water over the hillsides to wash down the gravel with its mineral content. Good hiking trails, camping, cabins, picnic tables, and tours available. Hwy 49 for 10 miles to Tyler-Foote Crossing Road, then 16 miles to the park. |
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