Steve Cottrell: Echoes from our past — Hamlet Davis, a mayor without a gavel
A Dec. 1 column in The Union by Bernie Zimmerman, chair of the Nevada County Historical Landmarks Commission, affirmed that Nevada City’s legal name since 1851 has been City of Nevada and that the town has been incorporated four times: 1851, 1854, 1856 and 1878. Bernie did his homework and his recent chronological account was rock solid. Most history books claim that in the spring of 1851— following that first incorporation — Moses Hoyt (Hoit in some accounts) became Nevada City’s first directly elected mayor. Truth be told, however, the town’s first directly elected mayor was H...
Source: theunion.com