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The Land of Orland

By Gene Russell, Orland Historic and Cultural Society
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By Gene Russell, Orland Historic and Cultural Society
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The Land of Orland dates from the pre—Gold Rush 1840s when Granville Perry Swift selected the area for the adobe headquarters of his vast cattle operation. The naming of the town took place in 1875 when three men—who could not agree on a name—put their choices on slips of paper and the name Orland was drawn from the hat. Orland saw a great influx of development in the 1910s with the completion of the Orland Irrigation Project—the first federally funded irrigation project on the West Coast. ...

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