by
RuthAnn King, Lisa Van De Hey, Gridley Museum
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Traveling from Galena, Illinois, George Washington Gridley was 32 years old when he first gazed upon a broad verdant valley in California in 1850. He looked northward from the top of the buttes and knew at once that he had found his future home. Gridley settled four miles north of the buttes and began...