#Feather River
- The Nisenan: First People of the Yuba-Sutter Valley
The Nisenan (Southern Maidu) inhabited the Yuba-Sutter region for over 4,000 years, building a sophisticated culture around the rivers and valleys of the Sacramento watershed.
- The Acorn and the River: Sustaining the Nisenan Way of Life
The Nisenan developed a sophisticated economy based on acorn processing, salmon fishing, and managed burning that sustained thousands of people for millennia.
- 1850Marysville: Gateway to the Goldfields
In just two years, Marysville exploded from a small trading post to the third-largest city in California, serving as the supply hub and jumping-off point for tens of thousands of gold miners.
- 1862The Great Flood of 1862
The largest flood in California's recorded history turned the entire Sacramento Valley into a vast lake, devastating Marysville and reshaping how the region thought about water.
- 1997The 1997 New Year's Flood
On January 2, 1997, the Feather River levee failed at Arboga, flooding 50,000 acres and prompting the largest levee rehabilitation project in Yuba-Sutter history.