Editing Nevada City, California (section)

==History==
[[File:Nevada City c 1856.jpg|thumb|left|Nevada City {{Circa|1856}} by [[Julia Ann Rudolph]]]]

The settlement was originally a [[Nisenan]] village named {{lang|nsz|Ustumah}}.<ref name=":0">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iHuRJOXuev8C&q=nevada+images+of+america | title=Nevada City | isbn=9780738530628 | last1=Brower | first1=Maria E. | date=November 15, 2023 | publisher=Arcadia }}</ref><ref name="MiddletonBerkeley2008">{{cite book |last1=Middleton |first1=Elisabeth Rose |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |title="We were here, we are here, we will always be here": A political ecology of healing in Mountain Maidu country |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gfE6T0cREt8C&pg=PA387 |access-date=November 13, 2011 |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-109-10064-8 |pages=387– }}</ref>

[[European Americans]] first settled Nevada City in 1849,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nevadacityca.gov/pview.aspx?id=20700&catid=566|title=About Nevada City - Nevada City, CA|website=www.nevadacityca.gov|access-date=March 8, 2019}}</ref> during the [[California Gold Rush]], as Nevada ([[Spanish language|Spanish]] for "snow-covered", a reference to the snow-topped mountains in the area).  It was later called Deer Creek Dry Diggins, and Caldwell's Upper Store.<ref name="ncgold">{{cite web |url=http://www.ncgold.com/History/NCityHis.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970117183136/http://www.ncgold.com/History/NCityHis.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 17, 1997 |title=Nevada City, Queen City of the Northern Hills |access-date=July 21, 2008 |publisher=ncgold.com }}</ref> The ''Gold Tunnel'' on the north side of [[Deer Creek (Nevada County, California)|Deer Creek]] was the city's first mine, built in 1850.<ref name="Lindgren1896">{{cite book|last=Lindgren|first=Waldemar|title=The Gold-quartz Veins of Nevada City and Grass Valley Districts, California|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7e0PAAAAIAAJ|access-date=March 16, 2013|edition=Public domain|year=1896|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7e0PAAAAIAAJ/page/n221 207]–}}</ref> The first sawmill in Nevada City was built on Deer Creek, just above town, in August 1850, by Lewis & Son, with a water wheel.<ref name="Sargent1856">{{cite book|last=Sargent|first=Aaron Augustus|title=Brown & Dallison's Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready Directory ...: For the Year Commencing ... Embracing a General Directory of Citizens, with an Historical Sketch of Nevada County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=92VNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA20|access-date=March 16, 2013|edition=Public domain|year=1856|publisher=Printed at the Town Talk Office|pages=20–}}</ref> In 1850–51, Nevada City was the state's most important mining town, and Nevada County the state's leading gold-mining county. In 1851, ''[[The Nevada Journal]]'' became the first newspaper published in the town and county.<ref name="Bean1867">{{cite book|title=Bean's history and directory of Nevada County, California: Containing a complete history of the county, with sketches of the various towns and mining camps ... also, full statistics of mining and all other industrial resources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHFNAAAAYAAJ|access-date=March 3, 2013|edition=Public domain|year=1867|publisher=Printed at the Daily Gazette Book and Job Office|page=40}}</ref> The first cemetery in town, the [[Pioneer Cemetery (Nevada City, California)|Pioneer Cemetery]], was founded around 1851 behind the Nevada City United Methodist Church, Nevada County's first denominational church.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Brower |first=Maria E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iHuRJOXuev8C |title=Nevada City |date=2005 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-0-7385-3062-8 |pages=70–71 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=November 19, 2021 |title=Nevada City United Methodist Church to host annual Craft Faire |url=https://www.theunion.com/entertainment/nevada-city-united-methodist-church-to-host-annual-craft-faire/ |access-date=October 14, 2022 |website=The Union |language=en-US}}</ref>

The town of Nevada was [[municipal corporation|incorporated]] on April 19, 1856. In 1864, the word “City” was added to its name to relieve confusion with the nearby state of [[Nevada]], and the town has legally been known as Nevada City ever since. The former town of Coyoteville later became Nevada City's northwestern section.<ref name="ncgold" /><ref name="Hoover">{{cite book|last=Hoover|first=Mildred Brooke |author2=Douglas E. Kyle |author3=Hero Rensch |title=Historic spots in California|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=2002|volume=5|pages=258|isbn=978-0-8047-4482-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYMPR6xAj50C&q=%22coyoteville%22+%22nevada+county%22+town&pg=PA258}}</ref>