Knights Landing’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Knights Landing. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Knights Landing was founded in 1843 by Dr. William Knight, a practicing physician from Baltimore, Maryland. Knight built on a mound that marked the ancient meeting place of Native Americans inhabiting the regions about Cache Creek and the Sacramento River. The site early demonstrated its importance as a steamboat landing and point of communication between the people east and west of the big central river. When the town was laid out in 1849, it was originally called Baltimore, but an agreement over the sale of the new town lots could not be amicably arranged, and the title Baltimore was lost. Knight established a ferry there, which afterwards passed to the ownership of J. W. Snowball. In those days, the ferry tolls were $1 for a man and horse; a team and wagon cost $5. In 1850, S. R. Smith kept a hotel in the settlement and in 1853, Charles F. Reed surveyed and laid out a townsite and wa…
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Knights Landing’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Knights Landing’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewKnights Landing-Motoring Magazine…, 1915: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Knights Landing
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1990s
Nothing in Knights Landing is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Knights Landing has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Vernon School in Knights Landing, 5.4 miles away.
Knights Landing and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Knights Landing-Motoring Magazine-1915-009 (1915) 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.