September 24, 2011 Citizens Bank of Northern California, Nevada City, California, was closed today by the California Department of Financial Institutions, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver. To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Tri Counties Bank, Chico, California, to assume all of the [...]
Nevada Irrigation District (NID) water originates in the snow pack of a 70,000-acre watershed in the high mountains of Sierra and Nevada counties. The district’s Mountain Division reservoirs include Jackson Meadows, Milton, French, Faucherie, Sawmill and Bowman. Water from these reservoirs flows to PG&E’s Lake Spaulding via the Bowman-Spaulding Canal. From Spaulding, NID water flows [...]
Bullards Bar Reservoir is not in Nevada County, but it is close enough to Nevada City and Grass Valley as to make it a destination for water skiing, house boating and fishing. It’s only 21 miles north of Nevada City off of Highway 49 in the historic gold country. The three closest cities are Nevada [...]
The Empire Mine is the site of the oldest, largest, and richest gold mine in California. From 1850 to its closing in 1956, it produced 5.8 million ounces of gold.This 5.8 million ounces of gold would fill a box 7 feet on each side. It is estimated that this represented only 20% of the available [...]
Friday night, November 19 2010, it started snowing and by Saturday morning I had about six to eight inches of snow. Just as I started to go to work on my computer, the power went out. With no power, I have no heat so I figured… I’d better leave for the weekend. On the way [...]
NU Film Club entry to the CA Preservation Foundation Youth Film Contest. Credits: Casey Martinson – Narration Alex Ramsey – Camera, Editing Ian Lynn – Sound Recording Daniel Lawson – Technical Images: www.flickr.com www.photosofoldamerica.com www.pashnit.com www.yubanet.com www.ccservices.cc www.panoramio.com www.wordpress.com Music: Glenn Miller – “In the Mood”, “Little Brown Jug”, “(I’ve Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo” [...]
Following in the footsteps of harpist Joanna Newsom, local bands in and around Nevada City and Grass Valley are creating a vibrant indie music scene. Now the scene’s success is being furthered by a new record label featuring local bands, Grass Roots Record Co. Take a mini-tour of the Nevada County music scene with Dan [...]
Note: if you cannot view this video, you need Click here to download Adobe Flash Nevada County Airport is home base to over 140 aircraft with over 30,000 take-offs and landings occurring each year. Nevada County Airport was built in 1932 by Errol McBoyle, owner of the Idaho Maryland Mine, to fly gold to Mills [...]
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By Charles Schmidt: (Charles Schmidt is a local Nevada County furniture maker) I probably started getting a feel for putting rustic furniture together from growing up in Montana, living and working on ranches and farms that were quite poor; and quite pioneer in lifestyle, where we built what we needed; often with hatchet, hammer and [...]
