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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 22 > Where history is golden

Where history is golden

California’s Nevada City and Grass Valley unveil their mining pasts

By John Gottberg Anderson For / The Bulletin
March 22, 2009

GRASS VALLEY, Calif. — There are 367 miles of tunnels beneath this small town in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento, and every one of the passages is a route to gold.

Yet visitors to the Empire Mine — once one of the West’s greatest mines and now a California....

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