SMARTSVILLE AND TIMBUCTOO

PIONEER DAY 2010

Every year Pioneer Day gets bigger and better.  Smartsville and Timbuctoo were two authentic Gold Rush towns and have a very rich and exciting history.  During Pioneer Day, visitors can get a sampling of what it meant to have Gold Fever in Smartsville, California.

The most popular events of Pioneer Day in previous years were the tours of the Smartsville hydraulic mining areas, of Timbuctoo, of the town of Smartsville, and the local cemeteries.  But probably the subject of greatest interest is the restoration of the former Catholic Church in Smartsville.  Visitors will be able to see the inside of the church and talk with the men and women that are restoring this historic building.

Plenty of good food, will be available, and lots of interesting entertainment, including music by the famous Rough and Ready Fruit Jar Pickers, and historical sketches.  At least ten prominent characters of the past will be dressed in period clothing and will tell the audience about his or her life in the Gold Country.  Most of these impersonators will be available for personal conversation by individual visitors to Smartsville.

Descendents of prominent Smartsville and Timbuctoo residents will gather at Pioneer Day as a kind of historical reunion.  Some of these descendents of the same families met each other for the first time at Pioneer Day last year.  Our local Native Americans, members of the Tsi-Akum Maidu tribe representing an earlier group of Pioneers will be here also.

There will be children’s activity area, exhibits of horse-shoeing, gold panning, and, for the first time in Smartsville, a very special side-show style exhibit of Joaquin Murrieta’s head.

Don’t miss this fantastic festival in Smartsville on the last Saturday in April (the 24^th) from 9 AM to 4 PM.