Dr. Orly’s Colusi County Quiz #2
“True or False Questions”
 

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Quiz:

1. John Bidwell was one of the first non-natives to explore Colusi County.    True    False

2. The town site for Colusa was selected by Col. Charles D. Semple.    True    False

3. Granville Perry Swift’s adobe on Hambright Creek (north of present day Orland) was a        
    favorite stopping place for travelers in the 1850s.    True    False

4. Colusi County was named by General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo.    True    False

5. Peter Lassen laid out a town on his ranch and named it “Benton City.”    True    False

6. Will S. Green started the Colusa Sun in 1862.    True    False

7. Steamboats plied the Sacramento River until about 1900.    True    False

8. Glenn County was separated from Colusa County in 1881.    True    False

9. William B. Ide was the first President of the Bear Flag Republic.    True    False

10. Dr. Hugh J. Glenn was nominated for governor of California in 1879.    True    False

11. The “Colusa Plains” were considered prime agricultural land in the 19^th century.    True    False

12. The well-traveled Shasta Road went along the western foothills to the northern gold
      mines.    True    False

13. Ide is buried at the William B. Ide Adobe State Park outside of Red Bluff, California.    True    False

14. Granville P. Swift left Colusi County in the late 1850s never to be heard from again.    True    False

15. Dr. James Stokes of Monterey was awarded the Capay Rancho land grant.    True    False