Áudio tour Mill and Chapel Streets: Women, Saints and Sinners

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This is the Mill and Chapel Street: Women, Saints and Sinners walking tour.

To date, this is the longest tour that Rose and I have produced. We'll have to get feedback from the community to see if it was too long.

You can do this in parts. The sequential pieces are Walsh through South Church Street. You'd want to listen to those in order, but once you get to the Grass Valley Museum, the old Saint Patrick's Cemetery, you could just do those separate little tours if you want to. And because this is geo-fenced, you just have your phone app on, you walk in the area and it'll start talking to you. Another part you could do separately is the ones that go back behind the Grass Valley Museum and the Catholic School, and then down Brighton Street, Hocking Street, Cornwall Streets. That could be its own little section also. And then also you could probably do Chapel through Mill. That would be interesting to.

Some of the tour stops have lots of pictures. So I'm going to explain how to see them. When you're looking at your list of tour stops, you would double click on the title. That'll pop up with another screen on the lower left on that screen you'll see a little square that looks like a picture.

Double tap on that. That should bring up the screen that shows the pictures. You'll see the little dots across the top of the screen. That's where you can scroll to look through the pictures.

We start out in the parking lot where the City Brewery was located, on the far corner on stop number two. You'll be looking into the parking lot for the apartments. That was the location of the Taylor Foundry. We had multiple members of the Taylor family living all along Mill Street.We'll point those out later in the tour.

It takes you up Walsh Street and onto South Church Street, where you will hear Linda Jack talk about why Nevada County is unique for women's history in California. We'll take a short stroll through Saint Patrick's Cemetery and cross the street to hear stories told by the Grass Valley Museum docents and volunteers

After that, we head to the back forty. Not really. I call it the back forty, because when you look at the pictures of the orphanages that were in back of where the nuns were in the convent was and the chapel was, it looks like open fields.

I invite you to imagine going into the open fields when you go back that way on Brighton Street.

We'll meet a woman who was a civic leader and a connecting point between the Sisters of Mercy and the Grass Valley family, who were Cherokee royalty. We'll visit the landmark site in the Cornish and French neighborhoods that marked the place where gold was first discovered in quartz.

I'm Lisa Redfern, and I am a board member of Sierra College Press.

My name is Rose Murphy, and I'm a biographer for the Grass Valley Museum.

Lisa and I are both members of the Nevada County Historical Society, and also are historical fiction authors.

We have a couple of tour tips for your convenience and safety.

We recommend downloading the tour in a place that has good Wi-Fi or internet.

Check on the open hours for the Grass Valley Museum and plan to tour inside while you're there. Whenever you're about to cross the street, please pause narration and watch where you're going.

If you plan to walk in the cemetery and if the grass is high, make sure to wear closed-toed shoes.

As you begin this journey. We want to ensure an enjoyable experience for you and fellow walking tourists. Please remember to use earbuds for your audio tour and avoid using speakers.

Are you ready to walk? Let's go.