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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Willis J Polk Architect
1882/09/00 Thomas Ingram Sr and his son Thomas (Thomas Jr was born 26 Sept 1869, in St Ives, Cornwall, England to Christiana Tonkin Ingram) immigrate to Grass Valley. Thomas Ingram Sr will work as a head pump man at the Empire Mine.
1895/00/00 William Frederick Prisk Sr Work For three decades William Prisk is counted one of the foremost timbermen of the Grass Valley district and his skill in that exacting and hazardous vocation often brought him calls to go to other mining camps of the west.
1896/00/00

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Particulars for Empire Mine State Historic Park:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Cultural Affiliation Cornish-American
Criteria Exemplar
Historic Use Extractive Facility
Sight Category Historic District
Area of Significance Industry
Historic Use Single dwelling
Owner State



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 9th December 1977

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Empire Mine
Registry Address: SE of Grass Valley at 338 E. Empire St.
Registry Number: 77000318
Resource Type: District
Owner: State
Architect: Polk,Willis
Architectural Style: No style listed
Area in Acres: 777
Contributing Buildings: 15
Non-Contributing Buildings: 3
Non-Contributing Structures: 1
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Industry, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1925-1949
Significant Year: c 1896, c 1899
Historic Function: Domestic, Industry, processing, extraction
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling, Extractive facility
Current Function: Recreation and Culture, Industry, processing, extraction, Landscape
Current Sub-Function: Museum Park

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