Home of Lotta Crabtree

Nevada County · 238 Mill Street, Grass Valley · location approximate

Lotta Crabtree was born in New York in 1847. In 1852 the gold fever brought Mr. Crabtree to California and a year later his wife and Lotta. Several months after arriving in San Francisco Mrs. Crabtree and Lotta went to Grass Valley and started a boarding house for miners with Mr. Crabtree. It was here that Lotta met Lola Montez, who taught her to sing and dance. In Scales, Plumas County, Lotta made her first public appearance, which led to a successful career on stage both here and abroad.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.

Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)

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