Resources for Sierra College & Litton Hill Tour

Articles

Charles V. LittonHistory of talent and innovation in Nevada County: Grass Valley video industry | The Union (2014)
Grass Valley Hospital is Sold to Electronics Firm | The Sacramento Bee (1953)
Sierra College to assume property under eminent domain | The Press Tribune (1993)
Richard NoellDeath by Rail Car (1915 – page 8)
James Hughes Disposes of Orchard Property | The Union (1922)
William F. Prisk, Early Union Editor |The Morning Union (1893)
Robert Ross RoadRoss Helped Establish Local Campus of Sierra College | The Union (2005)
Sierra College celebrates 20 years in Nevada County (Interactive Timeline) | The Union (2016)

Videos & Reference Books

ANNOTATED NEVADA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INTERVIEW

Gerald Angove, Sierra College President 1975 – 1993

0:04:20 – 1940s Hughes Road. 0:04:45 – Golf course caddy & fish bait
0:10:27 – Hills Flat community, gas plant, and Nevada County Narrow-Gauge Railroad
0:42:02  – Pollution and Lake Olympia
0:48:00 – 1975 President of Sierra College
0:49:00 – Twelve-year legislative process to build Nevada County Campus
0:49:40 – Nevada County Campus
0:50:16 – First phase of NCC Construction

Printing Press History

0:02:07 – Washington Press

Koi Fish Documentary

Briar Patch Supporting Local Farmers

Playlist Links

Precious Waters – Carlos Nakai
Yuba – Mary Youngblood
The Singing of the Travels – The Folksongs of Britain (Cornwall)
Six Jolly Miners – The Folksongs of Britain (Cornwall)
Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy‘s Chowder – George L Giefer (Ireland)
President Grant Newcastle – Angus Chisolm
Mule Train – Frankie Laine
Railroad Boomer – Bud Billings & Carson Robinson
Joplin  – Maple Leaf


Places to Visit

HISTORIC CEMETERIES

Boundy – Newcastle Cemetery 
Hughes – Pine Grove (Nevada City) & Odd Fellows (Grass Valley)
Noell – Odd Fellows (Grass Valley)
Ross – Rough & Ready Historic Cemetery
Worthington – Pine Grove (Nevada City)

MUSEUMS

Nevada County Historical Society

Nevada County Narrow-Gauge Railroad Museum

Georgie Porgie – Arnold Johnson
Glow Worm – Dawn of the Century
Foxtrot – Michael Jary
Nature Boy – Nat King Cole
Simple Melody – Bing Crosby
Dating Game TV Show Theme Song
Dr. Who TV Show Theme Song
Sun Song – Nick Castro
Black or White – Michael Jackson
Cover – Patrick Patrikios

Custom Hiking & History Trail Art

Free History Talk at the Rough and Ready Cemetery

Join me on March 26th at 1 p.m. for a free history talk where I will be presenting the story of the Clendenen and Cleveland family of Randoph Flat. 

The first members of this family traveled to California by overland trail. The last generation had radios at home and women who could vote.

Readings from the Grass Valley Morning Union and other newspapers will illustrate the happenings of their lives.

Click here for details and to sign-up.

 

San Francisco Grave Removals 1930s – 1940s

The Gage family was one of many who were affected by grave removals in San Francisco.

With growing pressure to make efficient use of the valuable real estate, San Francisco’s dead had to make way for the living.

By the end of 1948, bodies in several pioneer cemeteries were moved to a mass grave site forty miles south in Colma, California.

Thousands of tombstones were recycled. Civic uses included; the sea wall at Yacht Harbor, breakwaters at the Aquatic Park and Marina Green, construction of a Wave Organ, as fill bedding for the Great Highway, as paving stones in the storm drains at Buena Vista Park and erosion control at Ocean Beach.

Phineas Gage’s niece, Delia Presby (Shattuck) Oliver’s gravestone appears on Ocean Beach when heavy storms move sand out to sea. It was last uncovered on June 4, 2012. The lettering — still legible — reads; Delia Presby, wife of, F.B. Oliver, Died, April 9, 1890, Aged 26 yrs., 10 mos. 27 days, — Rest –

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Wave Organ in San Francisco - photo by Kārlis Dambrāns - https://www.flickr.com/photos/janitors/15174001514
Wave Organ in San Francisco – photo by
Kārlis Dambrāns – https://www.flickr.com/photos/janitors/15174001514

2022 Update & Personal Note: While researching a set of my previously unknown grandparents, I discovered that I also have family that was disinterred (from Oddfellows Cemetery) and moved to the mass grave in Colma.

Background Research:

Encyclopedia of San Francisco – Removal of San Francisco Cemeteries

1950 Location, regulation, and removal of Cemeteries in the City of San Francisco by William A. Proctor
Department of City Planning
City and County of San Francisco

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A Second Final Rest: The History of San Francisco’s Lost Cemeteries film by Trina Lopez

KQED Radio Program: Why are all of San Francisco’s Dead People Buried in Colma? | Transcript

History of Erosion on Ocean Beach by Bill McLaughlin Surfrider Foundation, San Francisco Chapter

Ocean Beach Headstones – Weird San Francisco History

122 Year-old Gravestone Washes Up on Ocean Beach

Find a Grave

Other San Francisco Cemetery Information:

Still Rooms Slide Show by Photographer Richard Barnes – Bodies found during the construction of San Francisco’s Legion of Honor

Additional Gage Resources

Lisa’s San Francisco History Research Sources on Pinterest

The San Francisco information above was gathered in preparation to write the novella Phases of Gage: After the Accident Years.

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