Yolo County, California
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Yolo County, called Yola County in the statutes of 1850 but soon after changed to Yolo County, is one of the 27 original counties created on February 18, 1850. Territory which at one time was in Yolo County is now in Colusa County and Lake County. The County has had two Boundary Changes:

Almost all of Yolo County has been there since 1850.
A tiny piece of territory was in Solano County from 1850 to 1857 when it was added to Yolo County.

The County name Yolo is an Indian name variously believed to be a corruption of an Indian tribal name Yo-loy meaning "a place abounding in rushes" or of the name of the Indian chief, Yodo, or of the Indian village of Yodoi. In the original act of 1850, the name was spelled "Yola." The County Seat is Woodland . See also County History for more historical details.

Counties adjacent to Yolo County are Sacramento County (east), Solano County (south), Napa County (west), Lake County (northwest), Colusa County (north), Sutter County (northeast).

Yolo County Cities Include Davis, West Sacramento, Winters • Woodland. CDPs (A census-designated place (CDP) is a type of place or area identified by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes) Include Esparto. Unincorporated Communities Include Brooks, Capay, Clarksburg, Dunnigan, El Macero, Fremont, Guinda, Knights Landing, Madison, Plainfield, Rumsey, Yolo, Zamora. Other Neighborhoods Include Broderick, Bryte

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Yolo County Courthouse
Completed 1864

Weakened by earthquakes and characterized by "improper ventilation and foul odors," Yolo's first courthouse was condemned in 1911 as "unsanitary and unfit for the transactions of the court." It was replaced in 1917 by an expanded, classically inspired courthouse that is still in use. The building was restored in the 1980s and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986

A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California - Chicago, Lewis Publ. Co., 1891

YOLO COUNTY.

Yolo is a corruption of the Indian word "Yoloy," signifying a place abounding in rushes, with which the Indians composed the term " Toloytoy," or Tuletown, which was situated in early days on the western shore of the Sacramento River.

The history of this county extends well back to the earlier years of this century, it being on the direct highway from north to south, and hence visited by almost all the older hunting and exploring expeditions, many of which have doubtless been forgotten. In 1820 Argüello led a party through the county on an exploring expedition on behalf of the missions, and in 1825 the famous old trapper, Jedediah S. Smith, spent much time hunting and trapping within the confines of the county. In 1832 Ewing Young's band of trappers are recorded to have camped on Cache Creek at the mouth of Capay Valley. In the spring of 1841 a party of twenty-five persons in all came to California, including in their number William Gordon, William Knight and others. In that same year Gordon obtained a grant of two leagues of land on Cache Creek, and in the following year (1842) moved upon it, thus becoming the first actual settler in Yolo County. Gordon relates that when he came to the country he found two or three half-breed Indians at Grand Island, the descendants of a Scotch sailor who thirty years previously had deserted his ship, made his way to the Indians and became one of them. This story is thought to be corroborated by the discovery in 1851 of a stone on Feather River bearing this enigmatical inscription "1818—Gold Cave, in this M. ship—Lodes L. M." This stone is now in Pioneer hall,. San Francisco. Gordon was a genuine character, and a mighty hunter and retailer of hunting stories. He was extremely hot-tempered and obstinate. For many years he was a Justice of the Peace. He was a native of Ohio, born in 1800, and had led a very wandering life.

In 1842 J. R. Wolfskill obtained a grant on Putah Creek, going upon it in 1843. This latter year William Knight also settled on his grant where Knight's landing is on the Sacramento. Knight was a physician, a native of Baltimore. He built himself a house of poles and tules on the Yodoy (or Indian) mound. He died in 1849 and his heirs lost the grant because the title papers could never be found. In 1843 Nathan Coombs and others came down from Oregon. Coombs stayed with Gordon, and in the following year was married to his daughter Elizabeth. General Sutter was the nearest magistrate, and Coombs and his bride rode horseback the fifty-four miles to the fort and back the same day to have the ceremony performed. In 1844 George Schwartz obtained a grant of three leagues on the Sacramento, where Boruck or Washington now is. In this year several parties came down from Oregon or across the Sierras, among them the Kelseys, so well-known in connection with Lake County history, and Joseph Buzzell, whose chiefest cause of fame is that during high water in 1847 he went by canoe across the country from Sutter's Fort to Gordon's door.

The year 1845 was signalized by the fact that Gordon raised seven acres of wheat, the first grain grown in the county. In this year Thomas, M. Hardy got a grant of six leagues running from Cordons to the Sacramento. He was an Englishman, very unfriendly to the Americans. His house of tules was erected where afterward the town of Fremont flashed up like a rocket and sank again as quickly. Hardy died mysteriously in 1849 while crossing the Sacramento in a boat. The three Berryessas, Santiago, Nemicio and Francisco, went on their grant of the Capay Valley in May of this year (1845). James McDowell, a half-witted fellow in some ways, but a clever lock and gun smith, built a log-house at. Washington, where he lived with his, wife. He obtained some local note for his gun-making. In January, 1846, was born William Coombs, son of Nathan and Elizabeth, the first white child born in Yolo County. In this year W. L. Todd, W. W. Roulette and wife, G. J. Scott and his brother W. W. Scott, passed the season hunting in Capay Valley, and built the first house in that valley. S. U. Chase, a prominent man of the early days, who had come out in 1845, also hunted with them. The man who built this house for the party was one Francis or " Paddy" Clark, a thorough character, who had come down from Oregon with Coombs. He squatted on the Berryessas' land, but being dispossessed in 1852 he went to Bodega and for a time housed with a friend. One morning he took his gun and disappeared, never being heard of afterward—a silent, solitary man. The only event of note in 1847 seems to have been the birth, February 21, of a daughter to McDowell at Washington, the first white female child born in the limits of the county.

This brings us to the discovery of gold and a new order of things. Newcomers became so plentiful that we cannot mention them all. Jonas Spect, the noted discoverer of the northern mines, conceived the idea of making his fortune by establishing a town at the head of navigation on the Sacramento as a point of supply for the new mines. Going down the river he noticed the existence of a heavy bar at the mouth of the Feather River, and in the high lands on the opposite side of the Sacramento, he imagined he had found what he sought. March 22, 1849, he pitched his tent on the shore and named the spot Fremont in honor of the Pathfinder. In his tent he started a store and the place flourished at once. In July the town site was surveyed by W. J. Frierson and others; tents and wooden buildings sprung up as if by magic. In August Spect built a school-house, and Miss Matilda McCord, of Bloomington, Illinois, was installed as teacher, the first one in the county. Rev. John Braly, a Cumberland Presbyterian preacher who came down from Oregon, began to hold services, and shortly afterward came Rev. Isaac Owen, a well known early Methodist. To give an idea of the importance of the place at this time, we may state that at the Territorial election held November 13th, Fremont cast 102 votes, while the whole of the rest of the county cast but ninety-two. C. F. Reed kept the hotel.

As illustrating forcibly the rude times, we may relate one incident. In October a company of soldiers were sent up from Benicia in guard of a supply train. Passing through Fremont, one of the soldiers drank too much and became noisy at the tent of a sick man. Being warned to desist, he would not and was thereupon promptly shot by A. R. Lovell, a Sydney man, a saloon-keeper and a character of the day. A crowd quickly assembled, but the proceedings were brought to a hasty close by these words from Lovell: "My friends, this is a very solemn occasion: let's all go in and take a drink!"

The floods of 1849 washed away the bar at the Feather River and with it the hopes of Fremont. It struggled on for a little time, but soon died out completely.

At this time Yolo was included in Sonoma district, and at Fremont Judge W. R. Turner held the first court of the county. Yolo County was set off in the early part of 1850, according to act of February 18, that year, and the first county election held in April. The county officers elected were: Judge, G. A. Margrave; county clerk, B. Frank Brown; treasurer, G. M. Keene, but he resigned and was succeeded by H. H. Hartley; sheriff, E. A. Harris, and assessor, H. Griffith. Washington, opposite Sacramento, was the first county seat and continued such for several years. Then the county seat was removed to Cacheville, which had formerly been called Hutton's Ranch, the post-office being called Yolo. In 1862 Yolo City, which lay a few miles distant, was made the county town and its name changed to Woodland, where it has since remained, Woodland becoming since one of the fairest and most thriving cities of Northern California.

In the Legislature of 1850 first organizing the counties, the committee recommended Fremont for the name of this county.

One of the earliest settlers here was James M. Allen, sheriff of Yolo County in 1850, who was a son of David Allen and emigrated from Missouri about 1846, and lived in Santa Clara County until 1848 with his brothers and sisters; then he was a gold-miner for a time and visited Oregon; next he was a trader in live stock; in 1849 he founded the town of Fremont; from 1853 he was in Contra Costa County; from 1861 at San Francisco and interested in Nevada mines; 1865–'68 he was adjutant-general of California militia; subsequently in real-estate business at Livermore, where he was recently still living. His wife was Sidesia Mendenhall, and his children Eugene and Debra (Mrs. Biddle).

The Mexican land grants in Yolo County were: Cañada de Capay, 40,078 acres, confirmed to Jasper O'Farrell and others in 1865; Quessesosi, 8,894 acres to William Gordon in 1860; Rio Jesus Maria, 26,637 acres to J. M. Harbin and others in 1858, in Yolo and Solano counties; Rio de los Puto, 17,755 acres to William Wolfskill in 1858.

As with most other parts of the Sacramento Valley, Yolo County has known three distinct periods. In the first nothing was dreamed of but cattle and stock-growing. In the second, every energy was devoted to the raising of grain. The last is the era of fruits, grapes, etc. Yolo County now is noted for its fine fruits, raisins, etc., but even yet the growth of wheat and other cereals continues to be her leading industry, some of her citizens, such for instance as Dr. Merritt, being among the great wheat-growers of the State. It is doubtful whether there be another county in California with greater natural resources of soil and situation. Except for a strip a few miles wide along the western border adjoining the foothills, the entire county presents the appearance of an almost level plain. This plain is the rich alluvium of the Sacramento Valley, of a fabulous fertility. Considerable tracts along the river front and lower parts are tule lands that every winter are covered with a few feet of water. Across one strip of this, on the road to Sacramento, one J. B. Lewis in '49 and 50' had a ferry three miles long. A rope was stretched across this distance, and, wind permitting, he sailed his craft along the rope. Since then large sections of this land have been dyked and reclaimed, and operations are now in progress which will reclaim many thousand acres more of this soil. Once secured from water there is no such wheat land in the world. It recalls the stories of Egyptian fertility or of the Egypt of Illinois and its corn lands along the Mississippi. But yet it is rather the orchards and vineyards that are so characteristic a scene around the principal centres, as at Woodland, at Knight's Landing, near Winters, in the Capay Valley, etc., that give tone and value to the lands of the county. Of late years especially, rapid advances have been made in the way of the subdivision of the Spanish grants and large estates, and the setting out of the smaller farms to fruit.

A portion of the county that promises very brightly is the Capay Valley, the position and advantages of which are analogous to that of the Vaca Valley to its south. Lack of accessibility has kept it back in the march of progress, but a few years ago the Southern Pacific built a branch line from Winters to Madison, which lies at its mouth, and thence to Ramsey's at the head of the valley, the probability being that eventually the line will be extended to Lake County, up Cache Creek, which flows through the valley. The railroad company has purchased and opened to settlement at low prices the larger part of the land in the valley, and it is being rapidly taken hold of. The industrial history of Capay Valley really begins with the advent of the railroad in 1887, although it was always regarded as one of the most picturesque and charming parts of the State.

Yolo County is well-served with railroads. In 1868–'69 the California Central, now a part of the Southern Pacific system, was built from Davisville to Washington, over the low lands, across the eastern end of the county, from the same point to Woodland and thence to Knight's Landing and, crossing the Sacramento and the tules, to Marysville. The high water of 1871'72 washed away both the section between Davisville and Washington, and that between Knight's Landing and Marysville. The former was rebuilt at once in a more substantial manner, and is now a portion of the main line of the Central Pacific, while the latter is being rebuilt now (1890) and will form an important link in the railway system of the valley. This Marysville road was originally part of a comprehensive system of trans-continental roads that came to naught. The line from Woodland northward through Colusa County to Tehama was completed during the seventies and has been of great benefit to Woodland and the county. A branch line was extended from Vacaville to Winters in 1876, to Madison in 1877, and thence up the Capay Valley in 1887, a cut-off being now projected from Madison to Woodland, thus making Woodland the real practical center of the county.

WOODLAND

is one of the most handsome and progressive cities in California. Its history begins in 1855 when James McClure & Son established a blacksmith shop where the future city was to be. Later in the same year Henry Wyckoff built a store there. In the fall of 1857 Wyckoff was bought out by F. S. Freeman, who has ever since resided there and been one of Woodland's most energetic citizens. In 1858 a postoffice was established, with Mr. Freeman as postmaster, the name being Yolo City. We ought to mention, however, that prior to achieving the dignity of a name, a whisky shop or saloon was opened there in 1857, by one By. Hall. He was run out, very shortly afterward, the sober, better, moral element having always been strong at this point. In the same year was also built a two-story school building, in the upper story of which was established a division of the Sons of Temperance,---auspicious sign,—and a Masonic lodge. In 1862 Yolo City was made the county-seat and the name was changed to Woodland. The erection of county buildings was immediately begun and a handsome court-house and hospital was put up, at a cost of some $40,000.

In 1889 a fine new hall of records built at an expense of $30,000, has been added, of most attractive architecture. Woodland has grown rapidly from the first, the coming of the railway in 1868 giving it an especial impetus. It is the home of wealthy men, having a larger number of millionaires in proportion to population, so it is said, than any other place in California. It is noteworthy too that all this wealth has been made within the county, none of it being imported or hereditary. Woodland has an unusually large proportion of beautiful homes, set generally in ample grounds and luxuriantly surrounded by trees and flowers. Indeed the buildings generally, both public and private are of a substantial and stately character. Its system of public schools is excellent and it has also a number of private schools.

The Hesperian College, under the auspices of the Disciples or Christian denomination, bears a high reputation for efficiency. The Woodland Commercial College and St. Mary's Academy, the latter Roman Catholic, are successful institutions. All these have been in existence for about ten years.

In Woodland there is a large flouring-mill, woolen-mills, an ice factory, a pork-packing establishment, a carriage factory and the large Yolo Winery, the property of the Yolo Wine and Brandy Association. She possesses also Blowers' Raisin Curing establishment. Yolo County is the scene of the first raisin-making in California, and R. B. Blowers is the pioneer. The city, has an excellent system of water-works, is lighted by electricity, and at the depot are enormous grain warehouses for shipping purposes.

The Bank of Woodland was organized on November 9, 1868, with a capital of $100,000. The original stockholders were: John D. Stephens, H. F. Hastings, George Snodgrass, John Hollingsworth, F. S. Freeman, Camillus Nelson, D. Q. Adams, G. D. Stephens, Frank Miller, B. F. Hastings, O. Livermore, Jeff Wilcoxon, H. C. Hemenway, U. Shellhammer, L. D. Stephens, Charles Coil and Charles G. Day. This list of seventeen stockholders has been increased until it now numbers seventy-five, among whom are the must substantial citizens of the county.

The bank was opened for business in the building now occupied by Wells, Fargo & Co's. Express Office on February 22, 1889. The officers of the bank were: J. D. Stephens, President; F. S. Freeman, Vice-President; C. W. Bush, Cashier. Directors, F. S. Freeman, Frank Miller, J. D. Stephens, John Hollingsworth, C. Nelson, Jeff Wilcoxon, L. D. Stephens, B. F. Hastings and C. W. Bonynge. Five of these gentleman have held their office continuously since that time, the present directorship being J. D. Stephens, F. S. Freeman, John Hollingsworth, C. Nelson, H. Fredericks, J. H. Harlan, L. D. Stephens.

In 1873 the directors bought and remodeled the building on the corner of First and Main streets, which is now occupied by the bank. The growth of business was steady from the inception. In the first monthly statement it is recorded that the paid-up capital of the bank was $35,500. This modest beginning has grown to amazing magnitude. Year after year the bank has increased its paid-up capital till now it stands on the pre-eminence of having the largest paid-up capital of any institution of like character on the Pacific coast, outside the great metropolis of San Francisco, it having reached, with surplus, over $1,000,000. The present officers of the bank were elected at the annual meeting of 1883 and are: J. D. Stephens, President; F. S. Freeman, Vice-President; C. F. Thomas, Cashier,—who have held office continuously since that time with the approval of directors and patrons. The directors have been men of prudence and sagacity, and have always held the welfare and prosperity of Yolo County as sacred, and by their good management have been able to return to the stockholders splendid dividends. Their treatment of patrons has made the name of the Bank of Woodland synonymous with honesty and fair dealing, and the bank has become the pride of the county.

The business of this institution indicates the solid prosperity of Yolo County. Almost every dollar of its capital is used at home—its interest is the interest of Yolo County, and it is always in the front rank of enterprise.

VILLAGES.

Winters, the second town in importance of the county, is of comparatively recent date. It was laid out in 1875 by the Vaca Valley & Clear Lake Railroad, and is on the line of Yolo and Solano counties. Its conditions are very similar to those of Vaca Valley, which it almost adjoins, being the outlet of Pleasant Valley, in the early ripening and marketing of its fruits and vegetables. Its early fruits are its pride in fact. It is a good business point with large shipping trade, and has ample school and church facilities, etc. It has a large fruit-drying establishment.

Davisville is an offspring of the railroad. It lies on the borders of Yolo and Solano counties, and is the point of junction of the Northern Railway with the main line of the Central Pacific. It is surrounded by a country of orchards and vineyards, and ships to the cities immense quantities of dairy products and especially of eggs and poultry, for which it is famous. Some large raisin-drying establishments are located here. It is well supplied with schools, churches, etc.

Washington, whose postoffice name is now Boruck, lies on the banks of the Sacramento river, opposite the capital city, by which it is overshadowed. It has considerable shipping importance, but is not progressive. It is almost wholly surrounded by tule lands, but the vicinity possesses many fine orchards, etc.

Knights Landing is the oldest town in the county, the first house being built in 1849, and the town being laid out in 1850 and surveyed in 1853, the postoffice name being at first Grafton. It is a place of some importance as a shipping point on the Sacramento river, and the peaches grown about it are famous. Now that the Marysville Railway is again completed it will probably improve. It will gain much by the reclamation of the overflowed lands near by, now progressing. It has a fine fruit country about it.

Yolo, the old Cacheville, once the county seat, is a depot on the Northern, a few miles north of Woodland. The large Yolo Flouring Mills of S. U. Wering, are situated here, and a great deal of grain, etc., is shipped. Blacks and Dunnigan are stations on the railroad, with large warehouses, attesting importance as shipping points.

Madison lies at the entrance to Capay Valley and is a place of rising importance, possessing an ice factory, a large pork-packing establishment, and is altogether a thriving and progressive place, with large wheat and fruit shipments. In the Capay Valley are several towns which will soon be important, from the large development in the way of fruit-growing about Near Madison is the great Orleans winery and vineyards, the property of the Haraszthys of San Francisco.

Yolo County is well represented in the field of newspaper enterprise. In Woodland are the Democrat and Mail, both alert and active purveyors of news and effective aids to the dissemination of reliable information about the great county of Yolo. The Democrat is the oldest paper of the county, its predecessor being established as long ago as 1857, at Cacheville, when county-seat. Dying two years later, it was revived in 1861 at Knight's Landing, as the News. In 1864 the News was removed to Woodland, succumbing again in 1867, but seeing an almost immediate resurrection as the Yolo Democrat, at which it stands firm. The Yolo Mail was established in 1868, and has known constant prosperity, being an ably handled sheet. At Winters is the Express, a lively weekly, and at Davisville is the Signal, which worthily represents its town, founded in 1884 and 1887 respectively.

The Assemblymen from Yolo County have been: L. B. Adams, 1887; F. E. Baker, 1881; Edward Bynum, 1856; A. B. Caldwell, 1853; George W. Crane, 1851; C. B. Culver, 1885; J. S. Curtis, 1857; W. M. DeWitt, 1877–'78; F. S. Freeman, 1871–'74; Humphrey Griffith, 1854; Harrison Gwinn, 1859–'60; J. B. Hartsough, 1863–'64; David N. Hershey, 1880–'83; I. N. Hoag, 1862; John M. Kelly, 1867–'70; William Minis, 1858; H. P. Osgood, 1851; John G. Parrish , 1852; Edmund Patten, 1863; Charles F. Reed, 1865–'66; J. H. Updegraff, 1855; Jason Watkins, 1875–'76; W. C. Wood, 1861.

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