Paradise: Images of America by Robert Colby

Description: It was more than 150 years ago that Uncle Billy" Leonard took refuge from the hellish heat in the shade beneath a Ponderosa pine, breathing in relief to his companions: "Boys, this has got to be Paradise!" Or so the story goes. Yet it is no fiction that the settlement grew to be more than just a stop on the way from Oroville or Chico to the gold country. Although Paradise was surrounded by mines, it had little gold itself. Disappointed miners made a living cutting timber, working at one of the sawmills, or hacking out homesteads in the foothill forests. Diamond Match Company built a railroad to its sawmill, locating the depot a mile west of town in what was sometimes called New Paradise. For generations before houses began to replace its orchards, Paradise was an apple-growing center, home to harvest festivals that are echoed in today's annual Johnny Appleseed Days.

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Book Title: Paradise: Images of America

Book Series: Images of America

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Original Language: English

Intended Audience: Adults

Publication Year: 2006

9 1/4" x 6 1/2": 127 pages

Type: Pictorial History

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Author: Robert Colby

Features: Illustrated

Genre: History, Photography, Travel

Topic: Butte County, Northern California

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States