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8TH CENSUS 1860
BUTTE COUNTY
OPHIR TOWNSHIP, OROVILLE
This information was taken from the census microfilm on file on the second floor of the Meriam Library, California State University, Chico. Some of the names in this listing were difficult to decipher and a question mark has been placed where the information is unclear.
The census marshals who conducted this census did not record the location of the dwellings visited. Ophir township included much of the city of Oroville as it existed prior to 1860. Maps of 1855 (when the city was named Ophir) and 1860 do not include the development of the traditional Chinatown model. Evidence from other sources suggest the area was called Chinatown as early as 1852.
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