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Nevada City

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Dedicated town story

Nevada City’s hotel interview begins with a refusal to romanticize the Gold Rush. The speaker then credits Charles Woods and David Osborne with helping turn the former mining town toward the arts. Preserving its buildings becomes a question about the future: what happens inside them, and who feels welcome there?

Nevada City beyond the Gold Rush

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Nevada City beyond the Gold Rush

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Nevada City rooftops among forested foothills at sunset
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Face the inheritance

The interview acknowledges the harm and danger behind the Gold Rush, giving the town’s familiar buildings a more complicated history.

Make a different future

Artists Charles Woods and David Osborne enter the account as people who helped change the town’s direction after the mines closed.

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