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