Grass Valley, California

In Grass Valley, the richest and most famous gold-mining district in California, the shift from placer mining to hard-rock quartz mining took place. One of the original boomtowns of the 1849–1850 California Gold Rush, Grass Valley is situated in the Sierra ...

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