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Book Title: History Of Butte County

CONCOW VALLEY.

    This celebrated valley is about twenty-five miles north of Oroville. It
contains a reservoir of the same name belonging to the Spring Valley Hydraulic
Gold Company of Cherokee. The first settlers of the valley were Dr. A. W.
Thompson, and his nephew, who came from Illinois. They erected the first house.
Nearly contemporaneous with them were Charles W. Mullen, and his son, W. H.
Mullen, who put up a log-house on the property, now owned by J. B. Mullen. G. G.
Marquis, who still resides in the valley, came from Columbus, Ohio, in 1849, and
settled in Concow in 1856. The valley took its name from a tribe of the Concow
Indians, numbering seven hundred, who were camped there when it was first
settled. Mr. Marquis has been one of the venturesome and enterprising men of the
early days. Since coming to California he has had many successful ventures in
mining and merchandising, followed by reverses. He kept a store at Stringtown,
in early days, and when Thompson's flat began to be developed, settled there for
a time. He was one of the first men in the county to investigate quartz mining.

    The hotel at the valley is kept by J. B. Mullen. It is located on the sunny
slope of the hill, 2,000 feet above sea level, and within a few hundred yards of
the reservoir. It is a popular resort for pleasure-seekers in the summer months,
trout-fishing in the neighborhood being excellent. A postoffice is about to be
established here, when a stage-line will be run. Concow valley has also a good
school.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,
IN TWO VOLUMES.

I.
HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1513 TO 1850.
BY FRANK T. GILBERT.

The Great Fur Companies and their Trapping Expeditions to California.
Settlement of the Sacramento Valley. 
The Discovery of Gold in California.
BY HARRY L. WELLS.

II.
HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY,
From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. 
BY HARRY L. WELLS AND W. L. CHAMBERS.

BOTH VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS AND PORTRAITS.
HARRY L. WELLS,
517 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
1882.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by HARRY L. WELLS, in
the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

FRANCIS, VALENTINE & Co., Engravers & Printers
517 Clay St., San Francisco


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