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Book Title: History Of Butte County

DAYTON.

    The place was first settled by Joseph Wiggins and Samuel Van Ness in 1859,
who engaged in merchandising. The rich agricultural region of Dayton township
made a village necessary, when supplies could be obtained and a market had for
the produce of that period. Dayton never grew metropolitan, but was always a
good trading point. George Perrigo started a hotel there in 1860, and it is now
run by Bradley Spencer. Lafayette Zumalt was the pioneer village blacksmith and
Dr. N. Watts the first physician, who resided there many years before removing
to Chico.

     Dayton is a considerable shipping point for grain, her landing on the
Sacramento river being five miles distant. Freights for the town are hauled from
Chico. The town has one store, two blacksmith-shops, one carriage-manufactory,
and two saloons. The Dayton school was started prior to 1860, and has two
efficient teachers. On the seventeenth of January, 1875, Peter Carton,
familiarly known as "Chips," was fatally stabbed by Jack Hayes, in the village
of Dayton. In Dayton township are two large Spanish grants. The rancho Llano
Seco is owned by John Parrott, and the rancho Agua Frias by O. C. Pratt. A
two-story building has been built by the Odd Fellows and the Campbellites
together, the upper part being used as a lodge-room, and the lower for church
purposes. The Dayton lodge No. 175, I. O. O. F., was organized August 6, 1870.
The name of Grainland is applied to the postoffice here, and frequently to the
town itself. Judge J. O. March is the present postmaster.


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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