Paradise Genealogical Society
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Serving Butte County, California since 1968 (Click on above underlined to see area covered) |
Library patrons have access to more than 2,790 printed volumes, more than 360 CD titles, and over 480 periodical titles of genealogical interest; icrofilm/fiche records; computerized files and resources; audio/video helps and the Florence Styles Collection of files and record resources of California, particularly Butte County, from this noted historian.
Butte County was one of the original California counties created on February 18,1850. Its name is derived from the Marysville or Sutter Buttes, which lay within the boundaries of the county. When it was created, it included the present county, the county of Plumas, the major portion of Lassen, and a part of Tehama, Colusa and Sutter. The discovery of gold on Feather River, in March, 1848, by John Bidwell, just two months after the discovery by Marshall at Coloma, was the beginning of a new era for this region.
During the Gold Rush in 1849, Butte County received its share of prospectors, and soon every bar, ravine and gulch had industrious miners. On the more important bars, mining camps of considerable size sprang into existence, some of them becoming quite populous towns containing many substantial buildings. Now only a few traces of these can be found excepting those that have absorbed the others and prospered by the law of “the survival of the fittest.”
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P.G.S. Library Address: 5587 Scottwood Road Paradise, Butte County, California Phone: 530-877-2330 (Click here for map of area) Mailing Address: Paradise Genealogical Society, Inc. Post Office Box 460 Paradise, CA 95967-0460 E-mail Address |
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