Wagon Wheels Publication
Wagon Wheels is a semi-annual publication of the Colusi County Historical Society.
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Send your order to: Colusi County Historical Society
P.O. Box 643
Willows, CA 95988
Telephone: 530-865-9555
E-mail the Editor: Dr. Gene Russell
Wagon Wheels Index #3 - 2005 to Spring 2010
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SPRING 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 60 – Number 1
Spring 2010
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editor’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Board Meeting & Program Briefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Gift to the People of Glenn County in 1958: SP Locomotive #2852
by Tom E. Dill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
U.K. Modeler Visits Orland’s SP #2852 Locomotive
by Mike Calvert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Hochheimer & Company, Part 2
by John Brock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Excerpts from DE KRUIDENIER’S DOCHTER: The Grocer’s Daughter
by Nellie Dreschler, as told to Melinda Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
A Special Person: Hal A. Singleton
by David Singleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The Willows Arcadia Book
by Evelyn Whisman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Monroeville
by David Freeman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
The Headlights from the C&L Railroad Locomotives
by Clay Castleberry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
McKeen Motor Cars in the Sacramento Valley
by Gene H. Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
My First Love
by Nip Boyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Footwear for “The Gentle Giant” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
History Mystery #1 – Photograph
by Marvin Larsen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
History Mystery #2 – Then & Now: Will S. Green Park, Colusa . . . . . . . . . . . 49
The Bridges of Colusi County: Stony Creek Railroad Bridge, Orland . . . . . . . 50
Postal History: Willow, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Glimpse from the Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Memorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
A Final Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Calendar of Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside Back Cover
Fall 2009
FALL 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fall 2009 Volume 59 – Number 2
Editor’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Board Meeting & Program Briefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The Incorporation of the “Town of Orland”
by Gene H. Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6
Documenting the Heroes Buried at Flanders Field American Cemetery, Waregem, Belgium
by Patrick Lernout & Christopher Sims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Orland Doughboy Buried in Flanders Field American Cemetery
by Patrick Lernout & Christopher Sims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1944 Crash Near Williams of a Northrup “Lightning” P-38
by Jean Boyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Pilot Killed Near Orland in Crash of P-38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Hochheimer & Company
by John Brock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Richfield Oil Company Towers: The Beacons That Lighted Our Way
by George Nolta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
We Remember “Bopo” (John Nielsen Lausten), Part 3
by Jacquelyn Housh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Colusa County Pioneers: Mr. Frame King & Family
by Judy Gerrard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 38
The Jubal Weston Family and Their Young Orphan Indian Girl Nellie
by Richard Burrill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Those Old Hay Barns
by Bill Wallace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 49
The Bridges of Colusi County: The Red Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Postal History: Lyonsville, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Glimpse from the Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Memorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
A Final Photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Calendar of Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . inside Back Cover
Mailing Wagon Wheels a Manual Effort
Billiejean Durst, Gene Russell, Lloyd Durst stuffing Wagon Wheels into mailing envelopes at the Valley Rose Printing shop in Yuba City prior to mailing in April 2007.
Wagon Wheels On-Sale at Every Meeting
Fall 2007 meeting at Red Bluff.
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