Though Timbuctoo and Smartsville are in Yuba County, we are including them in our creek history because water from the Yuba River and Deer Creek watersheds flowed through them causing one of the first land use limit laws to be written in the country. In the 1850s, Timbuctoo and Smartsville were centers of activity. The population was between 1,000 … Read More
Land of Broken Promises – Nisenan Ground Zero
If you live in Lake Wildwood, Rough & Ready, Smartsville, Penn Valley, on Beale Air Force Base or off McCourtney or Lime Kiln Roads, you’re on ground zero for the Nisenan People of Nevada County, the land of broken promises. Long before houses and roads were built, this land was designated in a treaty between the local tribes and the United … Read More
