Visited Nevada City, California

On Saturday 19 Jun 2010, I traveled 57 miles north of my home in Folsom, California to the historic gold mining town of Nevada City, settled in 1849 at the start of the gold rush. Took longer to get there then I had hope as many people were on the roads on this nice day.
Nevada City is a nice little town with many shops, arts gallery, history sites and unique restaurants. There was a farmers market when I got there with many folks singing and selling produce. The town is full of very eclectic folks with many Buddhas and Hindu images everywhere. Also there are several art galleries and wine tasting areas.

There a many artifacts to its gold mining history including hydraulic mining tools, stone crushers and water power wheels. Along Broad Street many of the building have plaques stating their history from the gold rush era. I stopped at the Chamber of Commerce and was informed that every Father's Day, there is a bicycle race in town. Well I should have gone the following day.

Many Cornish immigrants(from southwest England) brought their mining expertise to the Nevada City. The city has a twin city of Penzance in Cornwall, England to commerate this relationsip. Found out there are some exchange of artifacts between the two cities but City Hall was closed and could not see them.
Really nice place will stop by again.

Photos can be seen in the public Facebook Link Below:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=61881&id=1507778102&l=a8d2ce9c14