It is always interesting to read local history and to understand how critically important my backyard was at the time. Plum Valley is a place I’ve been meaning to visit, especially after enjoying the over the top bloody Mary’s in Camptonville. And some of the events described in Marysville still color events to this day, most especially with the latest mandated closures due to COVID.
Exploring Timbuctoo with a local historian was a great experience, and I regret not taking more pictures that day, since much of it collapsed during heavy rains the following winter.
I feel the same about the area I lived for many years - south Fresno County. There is a nice little town called Visalia, just across the Tulare County line. (Now it is in Devin Nunes’s district.) Today it is an unremarkable farming community, but in mid-1860 it was an important stop on the Butterfield stagecoach line to the east.