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Introduction to Materials on the Old North's Founding
Overview of existing materials and of the new materials added here.
The original account of the Old North's founding is on pages 53-69 of Old North Davis, a section of a book available on this web site at this link:
Pages 12-76, Part I. Guides to History
A capsule account of the same story is on pages 1, 2, and 3 of Resurgent Old North Davis, also on this site and at this link:
Recent events suggest that these accounts should be further documented and elaborated in a public way. To that end, the following items have been brought to this folder.
l. Digital scan of the February 15, 1913 Yolo County Board of Supervisors MInutes that report C. W. Bowers appearing before that Board to request approval of a map of Bowers Addition.
2. Copy of the map of Bowers Addition Bowers presented to the Board and that was filed with the Yolo County Clerk/Recorder on February 15, 1913.
3. Digital scan of the September 15, 1913 Yolo County Board of Supervisors Minutes that report A. C. Proctor appearing and presenting a map of Bowers Acres and requesting approval.
4. Copy of the map of Bowers Acres filed with the Yolo County Clerk/Recorder on September 19, 1913.
5. Eleven reports from the Davis Enterprise. The
Enterprise pages are digital reproductions of photocopies of
the single-page originals made on an oversize photocopy machine by UC
Davis Archivist John Skarstad and me at Davis' Kinko's Copies in
October, 1998. The yellow notes and red markings around stories were
done for use in the Hattie Weber Museum exhibit Old North
Davis, an exhibit at that venue from late 1998 to late
1999.
John Lofland