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Smartsville and Timbuctoo
Smartsville and Timbuctoo (California State Landmarks Nos. 321 and 320) are essentially one place with two names. As worked-out claims and floods forced placer forty-niners up from the sandbars into the hills above the Yuba River, and as word spread around the world about gold in the California hills, towns and communities formed. The Smartsville and Timbuctoo area was once the most populated place in eastern Yuba County. Black Bart, Jim "the Timbuctoo Terror" Webster, and other desperadoes haunted the local roads. Eventually fires, worked-out diggings, and the Sawyer Decision succeeded in driving out all but the most dedicated (and in some cases eccentric) residents. Neither town, though, is ready yet for the dustbin of history: the population might once again explode—this time not with gold seekers but with long-distance commuters, turning the former boomtowns into future bedroom communities.
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Smartsville and Timbuctoo
Smartsville and Timbuctoo (California State Landmarks Nos. 321 and 320) are essentially one place with two names. As worked-out claims and floods forced placer forty-niners up from the sandbars into the hills above the Yuba River, and as word spread around the world about gold in the California hills, towns and communities formed. The Smartsville and Timbuctoo area was once the most populated place in eastern Yuba County. Black Bart, Jim "the Timbuctoo Terror" Webster, and other desperadoes haunted the local roads. Eventually fires, worked-out diggings, and the Sawyer Decision succeeded in driving out all but the most dedicated (and in some cases eccentric) residents. Neither town, though, is ready yet for the dustbin of history: the population might once again explode—this time not with gold seekers but with long-distance commuters, turning the former boomtowns into future bedroom communities.
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Smartsville and Timbuctoo

Smartsville and Timbuctoo

by Kathleen Smith, Lane Parker
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Smartsville and Timbuctoo

Smartsville and Timbuctoo

by Kathleen Smith, Lane Parker

Overview

Smartsville and Timbuctoo (California State Landmarks Nos. 321 and 320) are essentially one place with two names. As worked-out claims and floods forced placer forty-niners up from the sandbars into the hills above the Yuba River, and as word spread around the world about gold in the California hills, towns and communities formed. The Smartsville and Timbuctoo area was once the most populated place in eastern Yuba County. Black Bart, Jim "the Timbuctoo Terror" Webster, and other desperadoes haunted the local roads. Eventually fires, worked-out diggings, and the Sawyer Decision succeeded in driving out all but the most dedicated (and in some cases eccentric) residents. Neither town, though, is ready yet for the dustbin of history: the population might once again explode—this time not with gold seekers but with long-distance commuters, turning the former boomtowns into future bedroom communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780738556062
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 06/23/2008
Series: Images of America Series
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 1,076,516
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.16(h) x 0.36(d)
Age Range: 3 Months

About the Author

Authors Kathleen Smith and Lane Parker have collected images and stories from numerous Northern California libraries, museums, archives, and from local residents and historians to reconstruct the past of this unique place. Smith has genealogical ties to Smartsville and Timbuctoo. Parker has been researching Timbuctoo since 2005.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     6
Introduction     7
Before Smartsville and Timbuctoo     9
Timbuctoo: The Most Populace Place     23
Timbuctoo: Relics of Pioneer Days     47
Mining Smartsville and Timbuctoo     65
Smartsville: Gem of the Foothills     83
Smartsville: Days Gone By     103
Selected Bibliography     126
Index     127
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