HOW OLD IS MY HOUSE? Who lived in it? Is it haunted? These are some of the questions the volunteers at Searls Historical Library receive on a monthly basis. They may be able to answer the first two, as for the third, not so much. They deal in facts. It can be difficult playing house detective, so the more you know regarding location of your home, or even the name of a previous owner, the better. Come armed with information such as lot and block or township range and section.
The type of material found at Searls Library includes maps from the 1800s. Also available for research are old phone books, directories of people dating into the 1800s, an index of deeds by person and business from 1856 to 1922 and Grass Valley’ s historical study of the original 1872 town site.
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Other resources include Nevada City assessor records and 700 volumes of county assessor ledgers. The county ledgers represent 100 years and go up to 1960. The early ones include details about personal property such as jewelry, furniture and cattle – a great window into the lifestyle of local pioneers.
Searls Library concentrates on the history of Nevada County and the Gold Rush. It has 26,000 county photos, original documents, newspaper clippings and books, and a large collection of documents, as well as furniture from the Searls Law Firm dating from the 1800s. Niles Searls was chief justice of the California Supreme Court. His son Fred specialized in mining and corporate law, and was an advocate for those with limited means.
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SEARLS HISTORICAL LIBRARY
( Nevada County Historical Society) 161 Nevada City Hwy., Nevada City Corner of Ridge Road( 530) 265-5910 nevadacountyhistory. org Monday-Saturday, 1:00 to 4:00 pm
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