A history of Yuba,
since 1849
Postcards, papers and photographs of Yuba from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The Maidu people were settled in the region when they were first encountered by Spanish and Mexican scouting expeditions in the early 18th century. One version of the origin of the name "Yuba" is that during one of these expeditions, wild grapes were seen growing by a river, and so it was named "Uba", a variant spelling of the Spanish word uva (grape). On the map of the area made by Jean Jacques Vioget in 1841, a Maidu rancheria called Buba, noted in Stephen Powers' 1877 book The Tribes of California as the village of Yú-ba, was located at the present site of Yuba City.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Yuba’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
3 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewSinghYubaCity, 1917: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Yuba
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Yuba, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as SinghYubaCity (1917) 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.