Grass Valley, California

Located in the heart of California’s Gold Country, Grass Valley was once a small settlement of fortune hunters who arrived just after the Gold Rush to California began in 1848. Two years later, prospectors discovered a major vein in Grass Valley and the district boomed. Over the next 100 years of mining, it became one of the most productive gold-bearing areas in the state. It even attracted a number of tin miners from Cornwall, England, who brought their mining skills and their taste for Co