📍 Hock Farm (CHL #346)

historic site · Yuba City · est. 1841 · no longer standing

John Sutter's personal agricultural estate on the Feather River, established in 1841. Hock Farm was the first large-scale European agricultural operation in the Yuba-Sutter region, employing coerced Native labor. The farm was destroyed by arson in 1865. It is a California Historical Landmark (#346), though little physical evidence remains.

People connected to this place

👤 John Augustus Sutter · Colonist; Rancher; Founder of New Helvetia · 1803–1880
👤 Didar Singh Bains · Farmer; Philanthropist; "The Peach King" · 1938–2022

Stories here

Sutter's Shadow: Forced Labor and the Unraveling of the Nisenan World · Colonization, Genocide, and Survival
Peach Bowl of the World · How Yuba-Sutter Became California's Peach Capital

📍 39.0500, -121.6200 · Open in Maps