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Grass Valley, CA - History
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Welcome to the Grass Valley Home page. The Grass Valley Home page provides as much information as possible on Grass Valley. Knowing Grass Valley’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Grass Valley’s Home page, you will also find Grass Valley’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Grass Valley has a population of 12817. 43.4% of Grass Valley’s inhabitants are Male, and 56.6 are female. 28.4% of Grass Valley is married and 38.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $334,523, and the average rent is $1,046. Household median income in Grass Valley is $42,477, and the individual median income is $26,883. Grass Valley’s Ethnic is the following: White(91.3%), Hispanic(12.1%), Multiple(5.9%), Asian(1.7%), Other(0.5%), Black(0.4%), Native(0.3%).
Grass Valley, which was originally known as Boston Ravine and later named Centerville, dates from the California Gold Rush, as does nearby Nevada City. Gold was discovered at Gold Hill in October 1850 and population grew around the mine. When a post office was established in 1851, it was renamed Grass Valley the next year for unknown reasons.
The town incorporated in 1860.The essential history of Grass Valley mining belongs to the North Star, Empire and Idaho-Maryland mines, for continuous production over a span of years. From 1868 until 1900, the Idaho-Maryland mine was the most productive in the district. From 1900 until 1925, the North Star and the Empire produced the most gold in the county.
In 1932, the Empire and North Star were physically connected at the 4600-foot level and 5300-foot level.Grass Valley has the Empire Mine and North Star Mine, two of California's richest mines. George Starr, manager of the Empire Mine, and William Bowers Bourn II, the owner, donated mine property which became Memorial Park.: 42 Wiliam Bourn Jr.
had taken over management of the Empire Mine in 1878 after his father's death, replacing water power with steam. In 1884, Bourn purchased and rejuvenated the North Star mine. The Idaho and Maryland mines were consolidated by Samuel P. Dorsey in 1893. In 1925, Errol MacBoyle acquired the Idaho-Maryland.
By 1938, the Idaho-Maryland was the second largest gold producer in the country. However, gold mining operations in the area ended during WWII, due to War Production Board Limitation Order 208. After the war, renewed operations were attempted, but according to Gage McKinney, "...by the mid-1950s mining was no longer profitable in what had been the richest gold mining district in California."Many of those who came to settle in Grass Valley were tin miners from Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Most arrived between 1860 and 1895, composing three quarters of Grass Valley's population.Grass Valley still holds on to its Cornish heritage, with events such as its annual Cornish Christmas and St Piran's Day celebrations. Cornish pasties are a local favorite dish with a few restaurants in town specializing in recipes handed down from the original immigrant generation.
Grass Valley is also twinned with Bodmin in Cornwall (UK). There was formerly a (short-lived) Roman Catholic Diocese of Grass Valley in 1868-1884, later relocated in Sacramento (and now a titular see). The Grass Valley K-Mart store was one of the nation's few remaining still open and the last one in California.
It closed in 2021.
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