Butte House Watering Trough, 1910 Advertising
Another landmark many of have seen but few of us know the story. Butte House Rd watering trough. Only one like it in the area. Sunday afternoon, I decided to stop by to see what was on this "block of cement" I've seen hundreds of times. Had no idea it was a watering trough! Why all the names all over it???
According to the Sutter County list of registered California Historical Landmarks and points of interest:
Butte House Road - site of the "Old Butte House" which was a stage stop. Still present is the watering trough, erected between 1910-1914 by the road districts; to defray the cost, ads were put in the newspaper. On the sides of the trough, names of various local business establishments were engraved in the cement which helped to defray the cost of the trough. Water was siphoned up from a well below the trough by a hand pump. This is the only trough of its kind in the area.
YC street derived its name from roadhouse
Kymm Mann
Appeal Democrat May 20, 2001
Q: I have lived in Yuba City for
the past three years. I would like
to know something about the
Butte House. I presume that
there was one because of Butte
House Road. It runs between
Yuba City and the Sutter Buttes.
When I ask about it, I get the
answer that it was the main road
from Yuba City to Colusa, but
nobody has been able to tell me
what the Butte House was.
A: Butte House Road is so
named y
because of a
roadhouse, or SINCE
stagecoach
stop along the
route, according to Kristen
Childs, assistant curator at the
Sutter County Community
Memorial Museum.
Called “The Butte House,” it
was established in 1871 by a set-
tler named John Buchanan as a
small hotel or place where trav-
elers could rest before continu-
ing. A post office was also part of
The Butte House, Childs said.
What is Pass Road now was
the only road between Yuba City
and Colusa at the time and the
addition of what is now known
as Butte House Road was bigger
and became the main road.
At that time, areas between
Yuba City and Colusa were
referred to as East, West, North
and South Butte and as an off-
spring of that, The Butte House
was named. The new street was
referred to as Butte House Road, and it stuck, even when the post
office moved to Sutter City, now
just Sutter, in 1887.
“The post office pretty much
shut down and the house wasn’t
as busy, but people were already
calling the road by that name
and it never changed,” Childs
said.
The exact location of The
Butte House is marked by a
watering trough monument that
remains along the road on the
east side, just before entering
Sutter, about a quarter of a mile
from the cemetery. It still holds a
rusty pump and several adver-
tisements from that time etched
in the cement.
Appeal Democrat Wed, Apr 22, 1959
Q: I have lived in Yuba City for
the past three years. I would like
to know something about the
Butte House. I presume that
there was one because of Butte
House Road. It runs between
Yuba City and the Sutter Buttes.
When I ask about it, I get the
answer that it was the main road
from Yuba City to Colusa, but
nobody has been able to tell me
what the Butte House was.
A: Butte House Road is so
named y
because of a
roadhouse, or SINCE
stagecoach
stop along the
route, according to Kristen
Childs, assistant curator at the
Sutter County Community
Memorial Museum.
Called “The Butte House,” it
was established in 1871 by a set-
tler named John Buchanan as a
small hotel or place where trav-
elers could rest before continu-
ing. A post office was also part of
The Butte House, Childs said.
What is Pass Road now was
the only road between Yuba City
and Colusa at the time and the
addition of what is now known
as Butte House Road was bigger
and became the main road.
At that time, areas between
Yuba City and Colusa were
referred to as East, West, North
and South Butte and as an off-
spring of that, The Butte House
was named. The new street was
referred to as Butte House Road, and it stuck, even when the post
office moved to Sutter City, now
just Sutter, in 1887.
“The post office pretty much
shut down and the house wasn’t
as busy, but people were already
calling the road by that name
and it never changed,” Childs
said.
The exact location of The
Butte House is marked by a
watering trough monument that
remains along the road on the
east side, just before entering
Sutter, about a quarter of a mile
from the cemetery. It still holds a
rusty pump and several adver-
tisements from that time etched
in the cement.
Appeal Democrat Wed, Apr 22, 1959
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