The Nevada Journal was a newspaper based in Nevada City, California. It was the first newspaper published in Nevada County, and one of the earliest published in the mountains of the U.S. state of California. Controlled by the Whigs, the first issue was published on April 19 (or 21), 1851 by Warren Baxter Ewer.[1] During its first ten years, the editors were W.B. Ewer (1851); Henry ("Harry") A. DeCourcey and Aaron A. Sargent (1852–55); E.G. Waite (1855–56) A.A. Sargent (1856); E.G. Waite (1858); B. Bireley (1859–1861). After Ewer, the publishers were Alban & DeCourcey with A.A. Sargent (1852); Sargent & Budd, E.R. Budd (1854); N.P. Brown & Co. (1855); Waite, Brown, Skelton & Fuller Co. (1855–56); Brown, Waite & Co. (1856); Brown & Waite (1856–1858); Lockwood, Thompson & Waite (1858); Brown, Waite & Co. (1859–1861).[2] It suspended publication in 1861, but was revived soon after and published another year and a half.[3]