By Steve Cottrell | Submitted to The Union
For more than a century, The Union readers have enjoyed accounts of Nevada County’s amazing history and the men and women who lived here during and after the gold rush. When I moved to Nevada City in 1977, history columns by Bob Paine drew my attention. Later, Bob Wyckoff became a regular contributor.
More recently, Gage McKinney, Linda Jack, Maria Brower, Gary Noy and others have provided us with a better understanding of our past as did the late Brad Prowse, who spent years researching and assembling his 100 Years Ago column.
None of us, however, could complete our research without occasional help from the Searls Historical Library, headed by Pat Chesnut. Missing from the 2021 Searls research team, however, is Wally Hagaman, whose death last December was a big loss for anyone interested in local history, and a deep personal loss for those of us who knew him.
How Cornish Pasties Got to California
Grass Valley’s Cornish pasties are a remnant of the town’s mining history
Back Web Only May 6, 2021 By Jennifer Fergesen On the counter of Marshall’s Pasties in Grass Valley, next to a few of the awards the 53-year-old shop has accumulated, there’s a blackened metal lunch pail. It doesn’t look like much against the stacks of plaques and framed certificates, but the pail is a direct connection to the mines that once powered this gold rush town. Marshall’s Pasties has an antique miner’s lunch pail on display. (Photo courtesy of Marshall’s Pasties)
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