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Inaccurate media and activist judge jeopardize SF's first prosecution of killer cop

Inaccurate media and activist judge jeopardize SF's first prosecution of killer cop
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Grass Valley's star-crossed lovers: Patrick Hull and Lola Montez had brief, tumultuous marriage in Nevada County

Grass Valley's star-crossed lovers: Patrick Hull and Lola Montez had brief, tumultuous marriage in Nevada County
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How Do Photographs Reveal a History of Asian American Erasure?

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Essays - April 22, 2021
She looks ahead with a steadfast, determined gaze. Perched on a chair beside a small table, she rests one hand on her lap, her bangle grazing a package. She cradles an open daguerreotype case in the other, her fingers wrapped around one portrait in what seems to be a small gesture of longing for absent loved ones.
We do not know who she is. We do not know her name. It is not often that an Asian woman an immigrant, a worker, perhaps a mother is pictured, or even rendered visible, especially in nineteenth-century America. What makes this image extraordinary is that it’s most likely from 1850s California: it tells the story of Chinese immigrants who came to America during the California Gold Rush (1848–65). ....

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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 Hamlet Davis.
Unfortunately for Davis, he became Nevada City’s version of John Hanson elected president of the United States in 1781, but under Articles of Confederation, not the Constitution; George Washington had that honor eight years later. For Davis, it was a case of Nevada City holding a municipal election before its incorporation had been certified. ....

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