Gold Along Grasshopper Creek - A Reconstructed Ghost Town.(Nevada City, Montana)(Brief Article)

From: World and I | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Connery, William S. | Copyright information

Nevada City would probably be just a stretch of open highway except for two families. The first were the Finneys, one of the last families to live there. By 1880 the town was practically abandoned. Dredges, which had been brought in to get at the harder-to-reach gold, and modern highway construction ate up one side of Nevada City. But the Finney family, who lived on the other side of the road, kept buildings on their side from demolition. As nearby buildings were abandoned, the Finn...

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