Blackwelder Mfg. Co. started in this Birds Landing Shop. Bert Blackwelder first came to Benicia and; worked in the Iron Works there, then to Bird's Landing to work for W.T [...]

The Blackwelder Blacksmith Shop

Sugar beet field on the Mangels Ranch south of Green Valley..

Sugar beet plant

Dixon May Day Parade - Dixon Iron Works float

Birds Landing Store erected in 1875 by Frank and Dinkelspiel. Town first known as New Jerusalem. John Bird erected a grain warehouse and; wharf on Montezuma Slough in 1869. Bird first postmaster in 1875 and; the village became known as Birds Landing. [...]

Harvester working in Montezuma Hills. See also # WY-117 and 118

Herman Heckworth's harvestor in the Montezuma Hills, circa 1915

George Cattey and Montezuma cultivator

Montezuma cultivator in use. Antone Azavedo, Joe Lewis, Andrew Glacier