HISTORICAL LANDMARKS AND DEDICATED SITES IN
NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
February 1999

PLEASE NOTE: This document was scanned from the Catalog of Historical Landmarks and Dedicated Sites in Nevada County California, published by the Nevada County Historical Landmarks Commission. This Web version may contain some errors inherent in the Optical Character Recognition scanning process. The Catalog, which contains site descriptions, an additional list organized by registering organization, and other information may be purchased from the Commission. Write the Commission at P.O. Box 1014, Nevada City CA 95959 for information.

ORGANIZATION/REGISTRATION ABBREVIATIONS:
CHL California Historical Landmarks
ECM E Clampus Vitus
ECT E Clampus Vitus
NEV Nevada County Historical Points of Interest
NGW Native Daughters & Sons of the Golden West
NHL National Historic Landmarks
NHS Historical Society Dedications
VET Veterans’ Memorials
MISC Miscellaneous Plaques and Memorials

Alder Creek Valley:
Donner Party Camp (MISC 96)
Emigrant Trail at Alder Creek (NIIL 61)
Tamsen and Elizabeth Donner (ECT 96)

Alexander, Dow (NGW 91)
Allan’s Machine Shop (NEV 20)
Allen Chapman House (NEV 92-01)
Alpha Hydraulic Diggings (CHL 628)
American Hill Diggings (NEV 17)
Balancing Rock (Rocking Stone) (ECT 3/14)
Baruh Home (NEV 24)
Bear River Bridge (NEV 92-02)
Bell Hill School (NGW 51)
Bevilacqua, Anthony I. (VET 21)
Beyer, Robert H. (VET 21)
Binkelmann Brewery (ECM 90A)
Binkelmann, David (ECM 90A)
Boca Brewery (ECT 15)
Boca Dam (NHL 8 1-72)
Boca Ice Harvest Site (NEV 32)
Boot, James A. (MISC 6(C)
Brasher, Lawrence A. (VET 21)
Brewery, Nevada (NHL 85-2303)
Bridgeport Covered Bridge (CHL 390)
Brimskill Building (ECM 65B)
Bronco (ECT 17)
Brown, Nathaniel P. (NEV 96-03)
Calanan Park Monitor and Drill Core (NGW 65C)
CaIdwell’s Upper Store Site (NEV 18)
Canyon Creek Bridge (NEV 95-07)
Caroline Mead Hansen House (NEV 28)
Carriage House—see Hefelfinger Wagon Shed (NGW 83A)
Chapman, Allen (NEV 92-01)
Charles Marsh House (NEV 96-02)
Chinatown, Grass Valley (ECM 69)
Chinatown, Truckee (ECT 4/20)
China Wall of the Sierra (ECT 27)
Chinese Herb Shop (ECT 4/20)
City Square, Grass Valley (NGW 91)
Clinton Narrow Gauge Railroad (ECT 21)
Coleman, Edward (NEV 96-01)
Colley House (NGW 94)
Columbia Hill School (NEV 06)
Congregational Church (NGW 87C)
Covey, Earl (MISC 78)
Crabtree House (CHL 293)
Cranford, Thomas W. (VET 66 and VET FWY)
Deeble, James F. (VET 66 and VET FWY)

Donner Party:
Camp at Alder Creek Valley (MISC 96)
Donner Camp Site (NIIL 61)
Donner or Pioneer Monument (CHL 134)
Graves Cabin Site (NGW 19)
Tamsen and Elizabeth Donner (ECT 96)

Doris Foley Library of Historical Research (NEV 27)
Douglass, Sheriff David Fulton (NGW 36E)
Dow Alexander Park (NGW 91)
Drill Cores from Idaho-Maryland Mine (NHS 61 and NGW 65C)
Drum Power House Pelton Wheel (ECM 87)
Edward Coleman House (NEV 96-0 1)
Edwards Crossing Bridge (NEV 95-03)
Empire Mine (CHL 298)

Emigrant Trail:
Emigrant Trail at Alder Creek (N}{L 61)
Emigrant Trail on Cold Stream Road (NGW 29C)
Emigrant Trail through Truckee (NGW 29B)
Emigrant Trail to Nevada City (NEV 91-01)
Overland Emigrant Trail, Highway 49 (CHL 799)
Pioneer Emigrant Trail (1) (NGW 36B)
Pioneer Emigrant Trail (II) (NGW 36C)

Emmanuel Episcopal Church (NEV 12)
Empire House (ECM 91)
Englebright House (NEV 23)
Firehouse No. 1, Nevada City (ECM 65A)
Firehouse No.2, Nevada City (NHL 74-544)
First Brick Building in Nevada City (NGW 32)
First Long Distance Telephone (CHL 247)
First Transcontinental Railroad—Truckee (CHL 780-6)
First Wagons Across the Sierra (ECT 13)
Five-Stamp Mill 1893 (ECM 82B)
Flagg Building (ECM 89)
Fleming, Isaac Leslie (VET 21)
Floriston (Bronco) (ECT 17)
Foley, Doris (NEV 27)
Foote’s Crossing Road (NHL 8 1-180)
Frandy, Melvyn (VET 21)
Freeman, Loyle C. (CHL 843 and NGW 76C)
Freestone, David E. (VET 66 and VET FWY)
Gary Ames Miller Memorial (VET 66 and VET FWY)
George, Harold J. (NGW 64)
Oillet, Felix (MISC 33)
Gilmore Flying Field (NEV 10)
Gilmore, Lyman Jr. (NEV 10)
Goeller, Michael (VET 66 and VET FWY)
Gold Hill (CHL 297)
Gold Quartz Discovery (CHL 297)

Grass Valley Area Landmarks and Memorials:
Bell Hill School (NGW 51)
Binkelmann Brewery (ECM 90A)
Boot, James A. (MISC 66C)
Chinatown (ECM 69)
City Square (NGW 91)
Covey, Earl (MISC 78)
Crabtree House (CML 293)
Dow Alexander Park (NGW 91)
Edward Coleman House (NEV 96-01)
Emmanuel Episcopal Church (NEV 12)
Empire House (ECM 91)
Empire Mine (CML 298)
Freeman, Loyle C. (CML 843 and NGW 76C)
George, Harold J. (NGW 64)
Gihnore Flying Field (NEV 10)
Gihnore School (NEV 10)
Gold Quartz Discovery (CML 297)
Grass Valley Hardware (NGW 69)
Grass Valley Historical District (MISC 69B)
Grass Valley Public Library (NHL 92-)
Grass Valley’s Famed Maple (NGW 76B)
Hammill, Malcolm (MISC 71)
Hansen, Caroline Mead (NEV 28)
Hard Rock Gold Mining (ECM 73)
Hennessy School (NGW 37A)
Holbrooke Hotel (CML 914)
Idaho-Maryland Core Samples (NHS 61 and NGW 65C)
Idaho-Maryland Mine Site (NEV 33)
Jones House Site (NEV 29)
King, Saurin D. (MISC 18)
King, Thomas Starr (NGW 76A)
Looser, Katherine M. (MISC 81)
Montez House (CML 292)
McGagin, Alyne (NGW 36A)
Mount Saint Mary’s Academy and Convent (CML 855)
Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad —Grass Valley (ECM 77)
Nevada Union High School (NGW 61)
North Star Mine Powerhouse (CML 843)
Pelton Water Wheel at North Star Power House (CHL 843)
Penaluna, James E. (MISC 83)
Pioneer Mothers and Fathers (NGW 29D)
Red Ledge Stamp Mill (MISC 80)
Reliance Hose Company #3 (NGW 88A)
Ridge, John Rollin (NGW 33 and NGW 76B)
Root Cellar on Mexican War Land Grant (NEV 30)
Royce, Josiah (NGW 31)
Scott, Edith C. (NGW 88B)
Saint Patrick’s Cemetery (NGW 84)
Snyder, Jo V. (NGW 30)
Walkie, John (MISC 87)
Washington Brewery (ECM 72B)
Watt, Ailson Finnie (NGW 83B)
Watt, James (NGW 14)
Veterans Memorial Flagstaffs (VET 54)
Veterans World War I Memorial (VET 21)
Veterans World War II and Korean War Memorial (VET 55)
Vietnam War Memorial (VET 66)
Vincent, Walter (MISC 88)

Grass Valley Hardware (NGW 69)
Grass Valley Historical District (MISC 69B)
Grass Valley Public Library (NHL 92-)
Grass Valley’s Famed Maple (NGW 76B)
Graves Cabin Site, Donner Party (NGW 19)
Hague, William (VET 21)
Hammill, Malcolm (MISC 71)
Hansen, Caroline Mead (NEV 28)
Hard Rock Gold Mining (ECM 73)
Haugen, Alan Robert (VET 66)
Hefelfinger, Isabel (NGW 83A)
Hennessy School (NGW 37A)
Hill, Hedley (VET 21)
Hobart Mills (ECT 12)
Holbrooke Hotel (CHL 914)
Hooligan Rock (ECT 97)
Idaho-Maryland Core Samples (NHS 61 and NGW 65C)
Idaho-Maryland Mine Site (NEV 33)
Indian Medicine Stone (NGW 36D)
Jatunn, Lenville Dooley (VET 21)
James S. Hennessy School (NGW 37A)
Jensen, Bruce Allan (VET 66 and VET FWY)
Jiboom Street (ECT 5/18)
Jones, Dr. W. C. (NEV 29)
Judah, Theodore Dehone (ECT 25)
Kidd and Knox Building (ECM 78A)
King, SaurinD. (MISC 18)
King, Thomas Starr (NGW 76A)
Kneebone, William A. (VET 21)
Kohler Building (ECM 67)
Korean War Memorial, Grass Valley (VET 55)
Korean War Memorial, Nevada City (VET 90)
Kunkel, John Robert (VET 66 and VET FWY)
Kruger, William Henry (NI{L 82-2220)
Kruger-White House (NHL 82-2220)
Ladies of the Evening (ECM 72A)
Lola Montez House (CHL 292)
Lone Grave (NEV 09)
Long Distance Telephone (CHL 247)
Looser, Katherine M. (MISC 81
Lyman Gilmore School (NEV 10)
Malakoff Diggins Clampicnic Area (ECM 66)
MalakoffDiggins-North Bloomfield Historic District (NHL 73-418)
Marsh, Charles (NEV 96-02)
Martin Luther Marsh House (NEV 11)
McOagin, Alyne (NGW 36A)
McGlashan Point (NEV 34)
Meadow Lake Petroglyphs (NHL 7 1-169)
Memorial Grove, Nevada City (VET 46)
Methodist Episcopal Church, North San Juan
(NEV 14)
Mexican War Land Grant (NEV 30)
Miller, Gary Ames (VET 66 and VET FWY)
Miners’ Foundry (NEV 21)
Monitor at Cal anan Park (NGW 65C)
Montez, Lola (CHL 292)
Moran, William Hawley (VET 21)
Mooney Flat Hotel (ECV 82A)
Mount Saint Mary’s Academy and Convent (CHL 855)
Mount Elisha Stephens (NEV 94-01)
Naffziger, Howard Christian (NHS 73)
Nathaniel P. Brown House (NEV 96-03)
National Exchange Hotel (CI{L 899)
Nevada Brewery (NHL 85-2303)

Nevada City Area Landmarks and Memorials:
American Hill Diggings (NEV 17)
Baruh Home (NEV 24)
Calanan Park Monitor and Drill Core (NGW 65C)
Caldwell’s Upper Store Site (NEV 18)
Chapman House (NEV 92-01)
Charles Marsh House (NEV 96-02)
Colley House (NGW 94)
Doris Foley Library of Historical Research (NEV 27)
Douglass, Sheriff David Fulton (NGW 36E)
Englebright House (NEV 23)
First Brick Building in Nevada City (NGW 32)
Five-Stamp Mill 1893 (ECM 82B)
Flagg Building (ECM 89)
Gillet, Felix (MISC 33)
Hefelfinger, Isabel (NGW 83A)
Indian Medicine Stone (NGW 36D)
Kidd and Knox Building (ECM 78A)
Ladies of the Evening (ECM 72A)
Marsh House (NEV 11)
Miners’ Foundry (NEV 21)
Monitor at Calanan Park (NGW 65C)
Naffziger Home (NHS 73)
Nathaniel P. Brown House (NEV 96-03)
National Exchange Hotel (CHL 899)
Nevada Brewery (NML 85-2303)
Nevada City Bicentennial Community (CML 832 and NGW 3Th)
Nevada City Downtown Historic District (NML 85-2520)
Nevada City Elementary School (NGW 38)
Nevada City Firehouse #1 (ECM 65A)
Nevada City Firehouse #2 (NHL 74-544)
Nevada City Hall (NGW 37B)
Nevada City High School Site (MISC 52)
Nevada City Historic District (MISC 68)
Nevada City Methodist Church (NGW 65A)
Nevada City Public Library (NEV 27)
Nevada County Court House (MISC 37)
Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad—Nevada City (ECM 68A)
Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Employees (NHS 94A)
Nevada County Traction Company (ECM71A)
Nevada Theatre (CML 863)
Northern Queen Inn and Ramey Family (NHS 94B)
Old Brick Gothic (Church) Building (NGW 87C)
Ott Assay Office Site (NEV 01)
Paine, Robert (MISC 94)
Pelton Water Wheel (ECM 87)
Pine Street Crossing (NIEV 95-05)
Pioneer Cemetery (NEV 20)
Pioneer Emigrant Trail (1) (NGW 36B)
Pioneer Emigrant Trail (II) (NGW 36C)
Plaza Grocery (NEV 22)
Powell House (ECM 85)
Red Castle, The (NEV 02)
Saint Canice Catholic Church (NGW 6513)
Sargent House (NEV 19)
Searls Law Office (NEV 15)
Shaft Drill Core at Calanan Park (NGW 65C)
South Yuba Canal Office (CML 832)
Stewart House (NEV 16)
Thompson, Leland (MISC 91)
Trinity Episcopal Church (NEV 18)
Wagon Shed (NGW 83A)
Wells, Fargo Building Site (NGW 26)

Nevada City Bicentennial Community (CML 832 and NGW 37B)
Nevada City Downtown Historic District (NHL 85-2520)
Nevada City Elementary School (NGW 38)
Nevada City Firehouse No. 1 (ECM 65A)
Nevada City Firehouse No.2 (NHL 74-544)
Nevada City Hall (NGW 37B)
Nevada City High School Site (MISC 52)
Nevada City Historic District (MISC 68)
Nevada City Methodist Church (NGW 65A)
Nevada City Public Library (NEV 27)
Nevada County Court House (MISC 37)
Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad— Grass Valley (ECM 77)
Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad— Nevada City (ECM 68A)
Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Employees
(NHS 94A)
Nevada County Traction Company (ECM 71 A)
Nevada Theatre (CHL 863)
Nevada Union High School (NGW 61)
Newlands Reclamation Project—Boca Dam
(NHL 8 1-72)
North Bloomfield Historic District (NHL 73-418)
North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company (CML 852)
North San Juan (ECM 63A)
North San Juan Fire Department (ECM 39)
North San Juan Methodist Episcopal Church
(NEV 14)
North Star Mine Powerhouse (CML 843) Northern Queen Inn and Ramey Family (NHS 94B)
Old Auburn Road Bridge (NEV 95-06)
Old Bear River Bridge (NEV 92-02)
Old Brewery (NML 85 -2303)
Old Brick Gothic (Church) Building (NGW 87C)
Old Capitol Building (ECT 6)
Old Chinese Herb Shop (ECT 4)
Old Stone Garage (ECT 8/22)
Old Truckee Jail (NEV 04)
Omega Hydraulic Diggings and Townsite (CML 629)
Ormonde Town Site (ECM 90B)
Ott Assay Office Site (NEV 01)
Overland Emigrant Trail, Highway 49 (CML 799)—see also Emigrant Trail
Ownry, Edward Allen (VET 66)
Paine, Robert (MISC 94)
Pelton Water Wheel at North Star Power House (CML 843)
Pelton Water Wheel at Drum Power House (ECM 87)
Pennsylvania Engine Company No. 2 (NHL 74-544)
Pine Street Crossing (NEV 95-05)
Pinkham, Albert (VET 21)
Pioneer Cemetery (NEV 20)
Pioneer Emigrant Trail (I) (NGW 36B)—see also Emigrant Trail
Pioneer Emigrant Trail (II) (NGW 36C)
Pioneer Monument (CML 134)
Pioneer Mothers and Fathers (NGW 29D)
Plaza Grocery (NEV 22)
Powell House (ECM 85)
Purdon Crossing Bridge (NEV 95-02)
Red Castle, The (NEV 02)
Red Dog Townsite (NEV 25)
Red Ledge Stamp Mill (GV 80)
Reliance Hose Company No. 3, Grass Valley (NGW 88A)
Ridge, John Rollin (NGW 33 and NGW 76B)
Rix, Douglas A. (VET 66 and VET FWY)
Rocking Stone (ECT 3/14)
Rodgers, James (VET 21)
Rollins Dam and Reservoir (MISC 66B)
Root Cellar on Mexican War Land Grant (NEV 30)
Rough and Ready Republic (ECM 70A)
Rough and Ready Schoolhouse Site (NEV 95-04)
Rough and Ready Townsite (CML 294)
Royce, Josiah (NGW 31)
Saint Canice Catholic Church (NGW 65B)
Saint Columncille’s Church (NGW 49)
Saint Patrick’s Cemetery (NGW 84)
Saint Paul Lutheran Church Site (MISC 93)
San Juan Town Site (ECM 63A)
Sargent, Aaron A. (NEV 19)
Schaffer, George (ECT 29)
Schallenberger Cabin Site (NEV 95-01)
Scott, Edith C. (NGW 88B)
Scurr, Kenneth W. (VET 66 and VET FWY)
Searls Law Office (NEV 15)
Seeley, John Stuart (VET FWY)
Shaft Drill Core at Calanan Park (NGW 65C)
Sheriff David Fulton Douglass (NGW 36E)
Sierra Sun-Bonanza (ECT 9)
Skisport Museum (NEV 03)
"Snowshoe" Thompson Monument (NEV 03)
Snyder, Jo V. (NGW 30)
South Yuba Canal Office (CML 832)
Spencer, J. M. (VET 21)
Stamp Mill at Grass Valley (MISC 80)
Stamp Mill at Nevada City (ECM 82B)
Star Hotel, Truckee (ECT 29)
Stephens, Elisha (NEV 94-01)
Stewart, William Morris (NEV 16)
Stidham, Ernest J. (VET 66 and VET FWY)
Tamsen and Elizabeth Dormer (ECT 96)
The Union newspaper (NEV 13)
Theurkauf, Harry Lee (VET 66 and VET FWY)
Thomas, Clarence Crase (VET 21)
Thompson, Leland (MISC 91)
Thompson, "Snowshoe" (John Tostensen) (NEV 03)
Trans-Sierra Freeway Project (MISC 66A)

Tree Memorials:
Freeman, Loyle C. (CML 843 and NGW 76C)
George, Harold J. (NGW 64)
Hammill, Malcolm (MISC 71)
King, Thomas Starr (NGW 76A)
Thompson, Leland (MISC 91)
McGagin, Alyne (NGW MA)
Edith C. Scott (NGW 88B)
Watt, Alison Finnie (NGW 83B)

Trinity Episcopal Church or Caldwell’s Upper Store Site (NEV 18)
Tritsch, Philip A. (VET 66 and VET FWY)
Trivelpiece, Alvin Stevens (ECM 66B)
Truckee (ECT 32)

Truckee Area Landmarks and Memorials:
Chief Truckee (ECT 11)
Boca Brewery (ECT 15)
Boca Dam (NHL81-712)
Boca Ice Harvest Site (NEV 32)
China Wall of the Sierra (ECT 27)
Chinese Herb Shop (ECT 4/20)
Donner Camp Site (NML 61)
Donner Monument or Pioneer Monument (CML 134)
Donner Party Camp at Alder Creek Valley (MISC 96)
Emigrant Trail on Cold Stream Road (NGW 29C)
Emigrant Trail through Truckee (NGW 2913)
Floriston (Bronco) (ECT 17)
Graves Cabin Site, Donner Party (NGW 19)
First Wagons Across the Sierra (ECT 13)
First Transcontinental Railroad—Truckee (CML 780-6)
Hobart Mills (ECT 12)
Hooligan Rock (ECT 97)
Jiboom Street (ECT 5/18)
Judah, Theodore Dehone (ECT 25)
Kruger-White House (NML 82-2220)
McGlashan Point (NEV 34)
Mount Stephens (NEV 94-01)
Old Capitol Building (ECT 6)
Old Stone Garage (ECT 8122)
Rocking Stone (ECT 3/14)
Schaffer, George (ECT 29)
Schallenberger Cabin Site (NEV 95-01)
Sierra Sun-Bonanza (ECT 9)
Tamsen and Elizabeth Donner (ECT 96)
Truckee (ECT 32)
Truckee Fire Protection District (ECT 32)
Truckee Flag Pole(ECT 32)
Truckee Jail (NEV 04)
Truckee Roundhouse (ECT 34)
Truckee’s Famous Rocking Stone (ECT 3/14)
Truckee’s First Log Cabin (ECT 1)
Truckee’s Vigilance ("601") Committee (ECT 24)
Truckee Fire Protection District (ECT 32)
Truckee Flag Pole(ECT 32)
Truckee Jail (NEV 04)
Truckee Roundhouse (ECT 34)
Truckee’s Famous Rocking Stone (ECT 3/14)
Truckee’s First Log Cabin (ECT 1)
Truckee’s Vigilance ("601") Committee (ECT 24)

Union newspaper (NEV 13)
Veterans Memorial Flagstaffs (VET 54)
Veterans World War I Memorial, Grass Valley (VET 21)
Veterans World War II Memorial, Nevada City (VET 46)
Veterans World War II and Korean War Memorial, Grass Valley (VET 55)
Vietnam War Memorial, Grass Valley (VET 66)
Vietnam War Memorial, Nevada City (VET 92)
Vietnam Veterans Freeway Overcrossing Memorials (VET FWY)
Vincent, Walter "Ralph" (MISC 88)
Wagon Shed (NGW 83A)
Walber, Ronald J. (VET 66 and VET FWY)
Walkie, John (MISC 87)
Washington Brewery (ECM 72B)
Washington Hotel and Site (NEV 94-02)
Washington Town (NEV 31)
Watt, AlisonFinnie (NGW 83B)
Watt, James (NGW 14)
Webb, Donald Ray (VET 66)
Wells, Fargo & Company, North San Juan (ECM 78B)
Wells, Fargo Building Site, Nevada City (NGW 26)
Western American Skisport Museum (NEV 03)
White, Charles Bernard (NHL 82-2220)
White, John Edward(VET21)
Whiting, Elton Thomas (VET 21)
William Morris Stewart House or Mansion (NEV 16)
World War I Memorial, Grass Valley (VET 21)
World War II Memorial, Nevada City (VET 46)
World War II & Korean War Memorial, Grass Valley (VET 55)
You Bet Townsite (NEV 26)