Self-Guided Tour
Plan a visit between sunrise and sunset hours.
14474 Stagecoach Way
Rough & Ready, CA 95973
Select your preferred audio or visual media and travel back in time with a Randolph Flat family where you’ll learn about living with a handicap, problems with open mine shafts, women’s voting, love, and loss.
While visiting the cemetery, please demonstrate abundant respect for the Stagecoach Way neighbors, for those at eternal rest, and for their stone markers.
Download the single-page tour sheet PDF that includes GPS coordinates, a topographic map, and all tour links.
U.S. Census records, newspaper articles, and emotive video clips.
(Same narration as the podcast.)
“It was a perfect day to be out in person and in reverence for those hard working ancestors that came before us. The creative historical podcast was so interesting I had to watch the u-tube video.”
Mary Jo Curtin
Images photographed from the big maps at the Searls Historical Library in Nevada City
https://nevadacountyhistory.org/searls-historical-library
Jenny Lind mining claim
Images photographed from the big maps at the Searls Historical Library in Nevada City
https://nevadacountyhistory.org/searls-historical-library
Images photographed from the big maps at the Searls Historical Library in Nevada City
https://nevadacountyhistory.org/searls-historical-library
Letter to Living Descentands:
Dear Clendenen and Cleveland descendants,
The self-guided tour media was produced by a genealogy volunteer for educational purposes only. All of the support documentation is available on Ancestry in a public tree named, “Filling in the Plot – RR Cemetery.”
While researching and pulling together public domain elements for this presentation, you were always in our thoughts.
There are so many relatable and engaging aspects of this story, it is sure to spark conversations and make Nevada County history even more memorable for its residents and visitors.
EXTRA
Create your own Cemetery Story (article) How-to Research in Three Steps (at bottom of page) – Full Circle Living and Dying
Links mentioned in the audio and video presentations:
Jack London short story – PDF | audio recording (YouTube).
Research Resources:
Find A Grave
Ancestry
Family Search
California Digital Newspaper Collection
Newspapers.com
The Grass Valley Daily Union archives
Doris Foley Library
Searls Historic Library
Referenced Nevada County Cemeteries
St. Canice Cemetery
634 – 636 W. Broad St.
Nevada City, CA 95959
Pine Grove Cemetery
100500 – 18049 Red Dog Rd.
Nevada City, CA 95959
New Elm Cemetery
Kidder Street
Grass Valley, CA 95945
