The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Tribal groups, including the Maidu people, were settled in the region when they were first encountered by Spanish and Mexican scouting expeditions in the early 18th century. In the 1850s George W. Gridley, a wool grower and grain farmer who at the time was one of the largest landowners in Butte County, settled a 960-acre (390 ha) home ranch west of the town site that was to be named after him. Gridley was established in 1870 when the Oregon and California Railroad was constructed north from Marysville. The railroad reached Chico on July 2, 1870. In the summer of 1891, a series of major fires "nearly swept away" much of Gridley, and the business district was nearly destroyed again by an additional fire in July 1905.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Gridley’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Gridley’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewBythenia Mineral Spring Water, 1905: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Gridley
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Gridley, decade by decade
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Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Bythenia Mineral Spring Water (1905) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.