News & Events
Events
WHAT: An Expanded JHS Self-Guided Walking Tour With Children’s Games and Activities During Gold Discovery Days
WHEN: 10am to 3pm, Saturday and Sunday, July 19-20, 2025
WHERE: Johnsville Historical Society Headquarters (the Johnsville church on Arastra Street)
The Johnsville Historical Society (JHS) is pleased to bring back its popular self-guided walking tour of Johnsville’s historical highlights for the 2025 Gold Discovery Days festival. This year, the walking tour has been expanded to include additional Johnsville landmarks and a series of family-friendly posters about the children, such as the girl pictured at left, who grew up in the mining community. Inside the Johnsville church, activities for children ages 5 and up will be set up that mimic the type of play activities the miners’ children once enjoyed. Make-and-take activities will range from Victorian-era paper-doll kits to forest-animal coloring sheets. Bring the whole family! The self-guided tour and children’s activities are free.
While this year’s Gold Discovery Days festival will only be held for one day, July 19, the JHS tour and related children’s activities will be held on July 19 and 20.
Read more about the event in the forthcoming JHS Spring/Summer 2025 newsletter. More information on Gold Discovery Days, sponsored by the Plumas–Eureka State Park Association, is posted online.
News
Spring 2024
New Johnsville Historical Society Facebook Page
The Johnsville Historical Society is pleased to announce its new Facebook page: Johnsville Historical Society – JHS.
We hope you’ll take a look and “Like” us—and become a follower of JHS.
Important Note! An old Facebook page called “Johnsville Historical Society” is still on this social media channel, but it’s no longer maintained (for complicated reasons); while we try to get the old Facebook page deleted, please make sure you’re going to our new Facebook page with “ — JHS” posted at the end of our name: Johnsville Historical Society – JHS.
JHS events and announcements will be posted regularly on this new Facebook page, as well as images ranging from gold miners’ personal wedding photos and other family scenes from the early 19th century to current shots of Johnsville’s abundant wildlife and majestic scenery.
To set up a free Facebook account, go to Facebook.com.
If you’d like to share some of your personal family photos from Johnsville—particularly photos, letters, or other documents of historical interest—please email them to JHS at johnsvillegold@gmail.com. We’d love to consider them for future posts on the new JHS Facebook page.
Fall 2023
David Daun, 1938-2023
David Daun helped establish the Johnsville Historical Society (JHS) and led efforts to restore St. John’s Church during his decades of living in Johnsville. The JHS board of directors honored his contributions by hanging his portrait inside the church, which serves as the JHS headquarters and a historical museum. An article in the Fall/Winter 2023 JHS newsletter featured highlights of his life, including the following passage:
With great joy and love, David resided in Johnsville with his wife, Jane, and daughter, Annie, and his extended family of town residents for more than 40 years. He spent a lifetime re-creating memories of his early life on the farm. He was an excellent cook, an avid baker of desserts, a printmaker, an artist, a historian, a gardener, a builder, a loving husband and father, a generous neighbor, and a kind friend to all.
Photo of David Daun (above) by JHS Board Member Bruce MacGregor