On my recent trip to the Bancroft Library I looked at this “Map Showing the Subdivisions of the John Bidwell Rancho,” which is in the Bidwell Family papers there. I don’t think Meriam Library has a copy of this, or if they do, it hasn’t been digitized. They do have a negative image of one section, titled “Map of the Seventh Subdivision of the John Bidwell Rancho.”
Map of the Subdivisions of Rancho Chico
The map is not dated, although based on the name B. Cussick, I think it is from around 1898. If anyone knows more about this map and when it was made, I’d like to know. Here is a close-up of the title portion:
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Hey, check it out– you live on Bidwell Avenue!
I know! That’s my next blog post.
There are some maps of early subdivisions recently discovered out at the Patrick Ranch Museum. I don’t know if they are this early. I can check. Also I am trying to figure out just when SO-WIL-LEN-No was named. I hope I can find out more information at the new records office in Oroville. This is a great map, Nancy. Thank you for sharing.
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I’d like to know that too. I want to write more about So-wil-len-no.