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Yuba and Sutter Counties of California. It is entirely created and maintained by the people who use it: Everyone can edit this website!
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Welcome to the Wiki provides a general introduction to the Yuba-Sutter Wiki and commonly accepted rules of netiquette on the wiki.
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Places in the Yuba-Sutter area include not only the well-known places such as Yuba City, Marysville, Linda, Live Oak, Sutter, Tierra Buena, Wheatland, Beale Air Force Base, the Sutter Buttes, Sutter National Wildlife Refuge, Spenceville State Wildlife Area, the Feather River, but also more obscure places such as Dantoni, Joesphine, Progress, and Ramirez, as well as many others listed on the Places page. It also includes Places to Eat or Drink, Places to Shop, Places to Visit in Nearby Counties, and similar information. Please add your photos or descriptions of places you're familiar with in Yuba and Sutter Counties.
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Culture in the Yuba-Sutter area includes Art, Cultural Groups, Events, Gardening, History, Issues, Literature, Media, Music, Organizations, Recreation, Religion and Spirituality, and Theater. Have you been to the Bok Kai Festival and Parade or the Sikh Festival and Parade? If you attended a public event in the Yuba-Sutter area, please add your photos or description to that event's page.
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Bomb Day is celebrated annually in Marysville during the weekend of Chinese New Year, in conjunction with the Bok Kai Festival and Parade. The Bok Kai parade is typically held on a Saturday, and Bomb Day is typically celebrated the following day. The main event of Bomb Day is known as "The Firing of the Bombs," and consists of exploding 100 "bombs" - special firecrackers that are handmade in Marysville specifically for Bomb Day, using bamboo, red paper, and gold leaf. The bombs have gold rings attached to them with wire. The watching crowd scrambles to retrieve these rings, which are said to bring good fortune throughout the following lunar year. Many of the rings are not kept by the finders, but rather sold to others who want good fortune. The rings are numbered, and in accordance with Chinese tradition, the #4 ring is said to be the luckiest.
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W. T. Ellis, Jr., for whom Ellis Lake was named, wrote in his autobiography ![[WWW]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
Memories: My Seventy-Two Years in the Romantic County of Yuba, California about the Chinese immigrants' celebration of Bomb Day in Marysville in the 19th century:
| New Year's day celebration was always followed in the next month with the Chinese "Bomb Day," when bombs were shot up in the air with numbered tags attached and the one who caught the wicker ring with the attached tag when it descended to the ground was entitled to call for and retain for one year a prize screen which was expected to bring good luck to the holder for that year. Great crowds would congregate to witness the scramble for possession of the wicker rings, when they were shot up in the air, particularly for the big prize one, and in those days I have witnessed over 150 Chinese pull and haul and tug for over an hour, trying to get possession of this prize, their clothes torn to ribbons, their hands and arms scratched and bloody, until finally some one of them would be successful, with the aid of his friends, to escape and run as fast as he could to the Joss House where the prize would be awarded him. Then would follow processions and banquets where large roasted hogs, "cooked to a turn," would be the piece de resistance. |
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Smartsville-Timbuctoo Pioneer Day is held annually in Smartsville on the last Saturday in April. It features wagon rides, live music, craft exhibits, and guided tours of Timbuctoo, Blue Point Mine in Sucker Flat, and the Smartsville-area pioneer cemeteries. A prize is awarded for the participant wearing the best Gold Rush-era outfit.
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Smartsville-Timbuctoo Pioneer Day Smartsville-Timbuctoo Pioneer Day
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The Run Drugs Out of Town 5K Run/Walk has been held annually since 2005. It takes place on the last Saturday in April at the River Valley High School football stadium in Yuba City. It is a family event, a competitive five-kilometer run or walk for all ages and also a quarter-mile kids' run. No alcohol, tobacco, or drugs allowed.
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Photo by Larry R. Matthews.Oregon Creek Covered Bridge (also known as Freeman's Crossing) is a 100-foot-long bridge across Oregon Creek. Built by hand, most likely in 1860, it is still—amazingly—in use. It is very rustic and a very rough-looking bridge.
There are two sources regarding the year this bridge was built. One said 1860 and the other 1871. Most likely it was built in 1860 as that is the year that appears emblazoned on the front of the bridge. If that is accurate, that would make this bridge the oldest covered bridge in California.
It is not the oldest bridge of any kind in California. That honor belongs to the Bidwell Bar Suspension Bridge, which was built in 1856 and has been relocated to the Lake Oroville Recreation Area.
To get to the Oregon Creek Bridge, drive 20 miles northwestward on Highway 49 from Nevada City. Go through North San Juan and continue for a few miles. Make a right turn where you see the Oregon Creek Campground area. The bridge is located just down the road a bit, at the intersection with Allegheny Road. The bridge is located just inside Yuba County.
The uniqueness of this bridge is the fact that it is installed backwards! In 1883 it was washed 150 feet downstream when a dam broke. As it washed downstream it turned end to end. A team of oxen was used to tow the bridge back into place. However they reinstalled the bridge backwards.
Drive, or preferably walk, across the bridge and you can enjoy a picnic and swimming area.
A great location to enjoy a summer day of hiking or just admiring the great scenery.
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National Register of Historic Places: Oregon Creek Covered Bridge Wikimapia: Oregon Creek Covered Bridge Flickr: Oregon Creek Covered Bridge Historic Bridges in Butte, Nevada, and Yuba Counties
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Can you guess where in the Yuba-Sutter area this picture was taken, or identify the building shown?
Where have you seen this mural depicting a shed or outbuilding below the Sutter Buttes?
James and Kara Davis correctly guessed that this is the mural on the Live Wire Products, Inc. building on the corner of 12th and E Streets in Downtown Marysville.
Read other people's guesses and spoilers! Or go look at past mystery pictures.
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Lion dancers in front of the Bok Kai Temple at the 2009 Bok Kai Parade. Photo by queerbychoice.The Bok Kai Festival and Parade is held annually in Marysville on the weekend of Chinese New Year. The Bok Kai Parade takes place on Saturday, and Bomb Day is celebrated on Sunday.
Traditional Chinese lion dancers come from as far away as 
San Francisco to dance in the parade, and the Ben Ali Shriners from Sacramento always bring a wide variety of different contingents. School marching bands and community organizations from throughout the Yuba-Sutter area also march in the parade.
Shriners' dragon float at the 2009 Bok Kai Parade. Photo by queerbychoice.
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Lung Huang at the 2009 Bok Kai Parade. A tiny portion of Hong Wan Lung is visible in the background. Photo by queerbychoice.The Bok Kai parade is the oldest continually held parade in California, having been held annually since at least 1880, and believed to have been held as far back as the 1850s. It features a huge silk dragon imported from China and carried on sticks over the heads of the marchers. The first dragon, Moo Lung ("Magic Dragon"), cost more than $5,000 in the 19th century and was the largest and considered the finest parade dragon in the United States until World War II. This gold-festooned dragon was frequently sent to participate in Chinese parades all across the United States, and was exhibited at a Worlds Fair. Due to damage to the fabric, he was retired after the 1916 parade. He was brought out again for the 1930 parade, and taken to San Francisco in 1937 for a Chinese hospital charity parade. By this time, tears in the fabric had required him to be shortened from his original more than 150 feet to only 100 feet. His head is now preserved in the Bok Kai Temple.
After World War II, the Bok Kai tradition in Marysville was preserved partly through the efforts of John and Katie Lim.1 More recently, a 152-foot dragon named Lung Huang paraded from 1991 through 2009. The 2009 parade marked the premiere of the new 175-foot dragon named Hong Wan Lung, who accompanied Lung Huang in that parade.
Hong Wan Lung lunges at the crowd in front of the Silver Dollar Saloon while Lung Huang circles back toward the temple at the 2009 Bok Kai Parade. Photo by queerbychoice.
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- 1Images of America: Marysville by Tammy L. Hopkins and Henry Delamere. San Francisco: Arcadia Publishing, 2007.
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There are three courses to choose from, of varying lengths. The shortest is the 17.5-mile "Fun Course," which follows Pass Road through the middle of the Buttes and returns along the south edge of the Buttes. The 40-mile "Classic Course" is the original course, which also follows ["Pass Road" through the Buttes but then continues north around the Buttes. The 100-mile "Century Course" follows the 40-mile course but continues along the Sacramento River and passes through Meridian. It is one of the flattest 100-mile courses in California, and is supposedly 95% flat terrain.
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The fair includes clothing and accessories from the Victorian times through the 1970s. Hairdressers and makeup artists at the fair can provide vintage hairstyles and make-up to match the outfits. Books about vintage clothing and local history are sold at the fair, along with foods of many kinds.
