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Rough and Ready, CA - History
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Welcome to the Rough and Ready Home page. The Rough and Ready Home page provides as much information as possible on Rough and Ready. Knowing Rough and Ready’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Rough and Ready’s Home page, you will also find Rough and Ready’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Rough and Ready has a population of 511. 65.2% of Rough and Ready’s inhabitants are Male, and 34.8 are female. 25% of Rough and Ready is married and 63.4% own their own home. Rough and Ready’s Ethnic is the following: White(100%).
The first established settlement in Rough and Ready was made in the fall of 1849 by a mining company from Wisconsin, known as the Rough and Ready Company, during the California Gold Rush. Their leader, Captain A. A. Townsend, named the company after General Zachary Taylor (nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready") who had recently been elected the 12th President of the United States.
Captain Townsend had served under Taylor when he commanded the American Forces during the Black Hawk War (1832). California had three towns so named of which this one survives.The town declared its secession from the Union as The Great Republic of Rough and Ready on 7 April 1850, largely to avoid mining taxes, but voted to rejoin the Union less than three months later on 4 July.
The old republic is celebrated annually as a way to attract tourism and as a point of local pride. The post office at Rough and Ready was established by February 1851; the first postmaster was Marcus Nutting. The ZIP Code is 95975. The community is inside area code 530. The post office was closed for a time in 1855, again for a time in 1913, and again from 1942 to 1948.In 1988, the 49er Fire was accidentally started by a homeless and schizophrenic local man near Highway 49.
The fire went on to burn well over a hundred homes and more than 33,000 acres in Nevada County, including structures in and around Rough and Ready.
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