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names Yuba - Sutter as the top small business community in California. Yuba
County hospitality, outdoor recreation, festivals and entertainment venues cater
to the corporate, group, and leisure travelers. Whether you are traveling alone,
with a group or your family, hotel accommodations and local attractions are
geared to your interests. Visitors can swim, fly fish, pan for gold or go tubing
on the Yuba River. Quietly paddle a canoe or kayak along the shaded banks for
the Feather River. The Sacramento River was made for water skiing unless you are
fishing for a Striper. Hike or bike ride in the beautiful Butte Mountains. If
you are looking for Festivals, Bok Kai, Air Expo-Golden West EAA Regional
Fly-In, Peach, Obon, Punjabi American, Strawberry Jubliee, Annual Yuba City
Cultural Celebration and concerts at Sleeptrain Ampitheater will keep your toes
tapping to the beat. You can also visit the historical landmarks that made this
great area what it is today.
Several ecological reserves allow visitors to
observe the splendor of bird in their habitat. Audubon Society
Bobelaine Ecological Reserve 12 miles south of Yuba City and one mile from
Highway 99 on Laurel Avenue offers five miles of hiking trails in a riparian
forest along Feather River where herons, egrets, mallards, hawks and owls are
spotted. Gray Lodge State Wildlife Refuge 12 Miles west of Live Oak is a
significant stop for millions of birds migrating along the Pacific Flyway.
Spenceville State Wildlife Refuge 19 miles east of Marysville on Hammonton-Smartville
Road of Highway 20 includes a shooting range, archery range, turkey hunting and
trails for hiking, horsback riding, and cycling. A deep pool at the foot of the
falls provides a popular swimming hole. Sutter Wildlife Reserve is 6
miles southwest of Yuba City on Oswald Road off Highway 99. For more information
on local events and attractions, visit: www.yubacity.net.
Yuba County Landmarks: NO. 1003 SITE
OF THE WHEATLAND HOP RIOT OF 1913 - The Wheatland Hop Riot was one of the most
important and well-known events in California labor history. A bloody clash
occurred at the Durst Ranch on August 3, 1913, climaxing growing tensions
brought about by the difficult conditions farm laborers at the ranch endured.
The riot resulted in four deaths and many injuries. It focused public opinion
for the first time on the plight of California's agricultural laborers, and
resulted in new state legislation to regulate labor camp conditions. A new State
Commission on Immigration and Housing was created to help improve working
conditions. Beyond that, the Wheatland Hop Riot was the first major farm labor
confrontation in California and the harbinger of decades of attempts to organize
or control agricultural labor.
Location: Intersection of S 'A' St and 6th St, Wheatland
NO. 320 TIMBUCTOO - In 1855, Timbuctoo was the largest town in eastern Yuba
County. At the height of its prosperity it contained a church, theater, stores,
hotels, and saloons, a Wells Fargo office, and the Stewart Bros. store which was
restored in 1928 and dedicated to the town's pioneer men and women.
Location: Plaque located on State Hwy 20 (P.M. 14.9), site on Timbuctoo Rd, 1.0
mi W of Smartville
USGS Quadrangle Sheet Name: SMARTVILLE
NO. 321 SMARTSVILLE - The first building at Smartsville (the post office is
called Smartville) was built in the spring of 1856 by a Mr. Smart. The Church of
the Immaculate Conception (organized in 1852 in Rose's Bar) was built in 1861,
and in 1863 the Union Church was erected. One of the prominent features of the
landscape of the town today is its churches.
Location: On State Hwy 20, Smartville
NO. 493 JOHNSON'S RANCH - The first settlement reached in California by emigrant
trains using the Emigrant ('Donner') Trail, this was an original part of the
1844 Don Pablo Gutiérrez land grant. It was sold at auction to William Johnson
in 1845, and in 1849 part of the ranch was set aside as a government
reserve-Camp Far West. In 1866, the town of Wheatland was laid out on a portion
of the grant.
Location: Tomita Park, Front St, between Fourth and Main Sts, Wheatland
NO. 799-2 OVERLAND EMIGRANT TRAIL - Over a hundred years ago, this trail
resounded to creaking wheels of pioneer wagons and the cries of hardy travelers
on their way to the gold fields. It is estimated that over thirty thousand
people used this trail in 1849. Rocks near this site still bear the marks of
wagon wheels. For those early travelers, the next ordeal was a tortuous descent
into Bear Valley.
Location: Big Bend Ranger Station, 2008 Hampshire Rocks Rd (old Hwy 40), 8 mi W
of Soda Springs
NO. 889 BOK KAI TEMPLE - Dedicated March 21, 1880, this building replaced the
first temple built nearby in the early 1850s. It has been a Chinese community
project since 1866, serving as a meeting hall, court, school, and place of
worship. In this 'Palace of Many Saints,' Bok Eye, the water god, is the central
deity and has been celebrated in Marysville on Bomb Day since Chinese settled
here.
Location: SW corner of First and D Sts, Marysville
USGS Quadrangle Sheet Name: YUBA CITY
NO. 934 TEMPORARY DETENTION CAMPS FOR JAPANESE AMERICANS-MARYSVILLE ASSEMBLY
CENTER - The temporary detention camps (also known as 'assembly centers')
represent the first phase of the mass incarceration of 97,785 Californians of
Japanese ancestry during World War II. Pursuant to Executive Order 9066 signed
by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, thirteen makeshift
detention facilities were constructed at various California racetracks,
fairgrounds, and labor camps. These facilities were intended to confine Japanese
Americans until more permanent concentration camps, such as those at Manzanar
and Tule Lake in California, could be built in isolated areas of the country.
Beginning on March 30, 1942, all native-born Americans and long-time legal
residents of Japanese ancestry living in California were ordered to surrender
themselves for detention.
Location: Yuba County Fairgrounds, Marysville
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