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At the time of the "secession", the town was populated largely by miners from Wisconsin . The declaration of independence was sent to Washington, DC , but was lost along the way. The United States Congress never got official word that a small town in the newly-admitted State of California was seceding from both the state and the Union, and thus the U.S. government never had the opportunity to take formal action against the "secession." Had it achieved true independence, it would have become the world's smallest nation, with an area of only 0.75 square miles (1.9 km²). The citizens disbanded the Republic the following summer, supposedly when they realized to their dismay that they could not celebrate Independence Day on July 4 , since they were no longer part of the United States. The history of the Republic is now celebrated annually in Nevada County on Secession Days during the second weekend of April. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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