Origami Crane Making
Nevada City Chinese Lunar New Year Festival and Parade
Having been dark for the past three years due to the pandemic, the Nevada City Chinese Lunar New Year Festival and Parade returns and welcomes the Year of the Dragon, on Sunday, February 25, 2024, 12:00-4:30 p.m. Chinese New Year Festivals are rare in rural communities, and CATS, along with the Miners Foundry Cultural Center, is proud to present this tenth family-friendly celebration, honoring the early Chinese Gold Rush pioneers and railroad workers of the Sierra.
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Listen to the Future!
Nevada County’s Connection to Chinatown Rising
During the California Gold Rush in 1849 and in subsequent years, Nevada County, along with many foothill towns of the Sierra Nevada, had a very vibrant Chinese population. They arrived from southern China in the early 1850s, driven to seek a better life, escaping overwhelming poverty and a civil war (the Taiping Rebellion). While thousands of Chinese mined for gold in the Sierra rivers and streams, they were later recruited in 1863 as the major workforce in building the Central Pacific Railroad.
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