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Tour the Odd Fellows Cemetery!
Friday, 28th at 4PM and 6PM.
Meeting at the I.O.O.F Cemetery
1420 7th Street Thermalito, California.
This cemetery near the end of 7th Street is on the bluffs of the Feather River with a great view of Oroville!
Let’s give this historic train a big welcome everyone!
The Union Pacific Steam locomotive Big Boy 4014 will make a 30 minute Whistle Stop in Oroville on Thursday July 11th at 2:15 pm at the Train Depot 2181 High St!
The world’s largest operating steam locomotive built to conquer mountains, will make 19 whistle-stops in five states this summer during its 2024 Westward Bound Tour from Wyoming to California.
The Union Pacific Railroad advises the public to stay back 25 feet when coming to see Big Boy.
Be there to help make a large crowd!
Union Pacific's legendary Big Boy No. 4014, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive built to conquer mountains, will make 19 whistle-stops in five states this summer during its 2024 Westward Bound Tour from Wyoming to California. In addition, this mighty steam locomotive will be on...
Here’s some pictures and information from last Saturdays tour!
Downtown Oroville Walking Tour!
Saturday, June 1st, at 2, 4, and 6 p.m.
Meeting at the Oroville Convention Center, 1200 Myers St.
Tours are on an optional tip basis.
These pictures are from last Saturdays tours of the Pacific Telephone Building and the Wolfe Building.
We would like to give a big thank you to Levi Kniss from the Axiom and Erin Lackey from Erin Lackey Photography for letting us take groups through their amazing buildings!
Downtown Oroville Walking Tour!
Saturday, May 4th at 2PM, 4PM and 6PM
Meeting at the Oroville Convention Center 1200 Myers St.
Tours are on an optional tip basis.
Some snapshots from E.T. the Extraterrestrial at the Oregon City School House last Saturday!
Photos and information from our tour last Saturday!
Join us for an outdoor showing of “E.T. The Extra Terrestrial” on Table Mountain at the Oregon City School House!
Spring is here and we are taking the walking tours back outside with a Downtown tour!
Saturday, April 6TH at 4PM, 6PM and 8PM
Meeting at the Oroville Convention Center 1200 Myers St.
Topics include
•The Western Laundry
•Scruggs & Meader Club (the 8pm tour will see the sign lit up!)
•Gray Nurse Hardware
Tours are on an optional tip basis 
Photos from our tours of Judge Gray's House last Saturday.
This home in Downtown Oroville is on Airbnb!
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/875609644170175062?check_in=2024-03-05&check_out=2024-03-10&guests=1&adults=1&viralityEntryPoint=1&s=76&unique_share_id=4eeb3a54-0bdd-40dd-9080-f3060d07addb
Tour of Judge Gray’s House
Judge Gray’s Home Tour!
Saturday, March 2nd at 3, 5 and 7pm. Meeting at 1623 Bird Street.
This historic home, also known as “The Carleton”, is now an Airbnb in Downtown Oroville!
Tours are on an optional tip basis.
Thank you for joining our first tours of the Washington Block!
Here are our photos and stories from last Saturday.
The Washington Block Tour
Saturday, February 3rd at 3, 5 and 7PM. Meeting at 1985 Montgomery St.
Come by and take a tour of Downtown Oroville‘s oldest commercial building and see some of the restoration work!
Tours are on an optional tip basis.
Another great tour of the Oroville State Theatre! Here’s some of our pictures and information from last Saturday’s tour.
On this tour, we got a chance to share about Stage’s Door Project! The State Theatre Arts Guild is in the process of planning work on replicating the original main entrance doors to the theatre as well as replicating the original ticket booth, moving it back to the middle of the entryway under the marquee. The goal is to have this done for the theatre’s 100th anniversary in 2028.
Thank you to everyone who came out to Bedrock Park to kick off 2024 with the Polar Bear plunge! We are happy to see so many new many new participants and spectators.
We were also very lucky to have Oroville‘s master historian Jim Lenhoff at the event to pass out some lucky two dollar bills to all of those who got in the water!
Polar Bear Plunge! 
Monday, January 1 at 1 PM
Meeting at Bedrock Park 
State Theatre tours!
Saturday, January 6th at 3, 6 and 8 PM meeting at the State Theatre 1489 Myers St.
We will be starting out the new year with tours of the State Theatre’s history and updates on upcoming projects.
Tours are on an optional tip basis.
Come by before the Light Parade to see the newly restored City of Paris sign for the Lighting Ceremony!
Downtown Walking Tours!
Saturday, December 2nd at 3, 6 and 8PM. Meeting at the Oroville Convention Center 1200 Myers St.

Take a walk with us through the glittering winter wonderland that is Downtown Oroville.
Topics include
-Snow in Oroville
-Pioneer Yuletide
-Rex Theatre
-City of Paris Building 
Tours are on an optional tip basis.
Here are some photos from last Friday’s tours of the Old Oroville Cemetery and information about some of the graves that we visited.
We would like to say thank you to the Oroville Cemetery District! When District Manager John Glaspie saw our post advertising the tours he and his team came out to the cemetery where they cleaned up and trimmed the sprawling landscape in preparation for the tours. More on this in the photos!
Old Oroville Cemetery Tours! 
Friday, November 17th at 12, 1 and 2 PM
Meeting at 2593 Feather River Blvd
Be sure to dress warm!
Tours are on an optional tip basis 
There will not be a walking tour today. Stay tuned for one later this month dates and times will be posted here soon!
HAPPY Halloween! I hope you all enjoy a spooky day of trick or treating! This is our last Historic Haunted Tour Video with the !
I hope you all enjoy this fun youtube video!
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A look into last Friday’s Haunted Sip & Spook hosted by Villa Vino with stories by Historic Oroville Walking Tours (Danny Ballard).
Suspended in time and space, the old Hotel Sutherland is an eerie labyrinth of lost souls looming above the center of Downtown Oroville. It made for the perfect setting for one of Oroville‘s oldest traditions, ghost stories. Our little town has certainly had its fair share of encounters with creatures, phantoms, extraterrestrials and the unexplained. We told about sightings of Bigfoot in 1969 on table mountain when Charles Jackson and his son, Kevin were working in the backyard of their home on Cherokee Rd. A huge ape like creature loped out of the woods stopping to stare at them. In 1953 two men named John Q black, and John Van Allen witnessed a a flying saucer, land at the junction of marble Creek and Jordan Creek, where a small gray man hopped out and collected water from the feather River. They reported what they saw to Ms. Belcher operator of the Brush Creek store, and from there the story took off. The Mercury Register said “ if it’s a quiet bucket of water you want Brush Creek is going to be a turbulent place to get it from there’s going to be an Earth style reception with radio broadcasters, newspaper, men, magazine, writers, and crowds.” The national radio Network was even in attendance on July 20th, 1953 but unfortunately for them and many of the professional and amateur photographers the flying saucer never arrive. We invited tour attendees to take a walk through the haunted Hotel Sutherland where locals have reported the lingering spirit of a sheriff that would watch over the ladies of the night from the hotel is rowdy years. However, from the 1950s to the 1970s the hotel was ran by a Lorraine McClendon Ms. McClendon didn’t stand for mischief in her hotel and went to bank robbers stayed at the hotel. Lorraine was on to them one of them fell dead at the scene of the holdup next door and the other was caught at Bedrock Park, where he was found sitting on the stolen loot.
Here’s a link to a video of the Sip and Spook hosted by Villa Vino!
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3rd Annual Downtown Oroville Ghost Tours
Saturday, October 21st, 2023 
- Tickets available on Eventbrite.
- Tour times are 6pm and 8pm
- Meeting at 1430 Myers Street Oroville, Ca
Join us for a spine-tingling evening of ghostly tales and get ready to explore the eerie secrets lurking in the heart of Oroville, California.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/downtown-oroville-ghost-tours-tickets-734816334437?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios
And don’t forget if tickets sell out, there’s The Haunted Spook and Sip hosted by Villa Vino at 1440 Myers St.
Friday, October 20th, 2023
- There will be themed drinks available for purchase.
- Ghost stories and walk around the haunted Hotel Sutherland open admission on an optional tip basis.
- Story times are 6:30pm, 7:30pm,8:30pm.
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Tour of Judge Gray’s House
A look into last Friday’s Haunted Sip & Spook hosted by Villa Vino with stories by Historic Oroville Walking Tours (Danny Ballard). Suspended in time and space, the old Hotel Sutherland is an eerie labyrinth of lost souls looming above the center of Downtown Oroville. It made for the perfect setting for one of Oroville‘s oldest traditions, ghost stories. Our little town has certainly had its fair share of encounters with creatures, phantoms, extraterrestrials and the unexplained. We told about sightings of Bigfoot in 1969 on table mountain when Charles Jackson and his son, Kevin were working in the backyard of their home on Cherokee Rd. A huge ape like creature loped out of the woods stopping to stare at them. In 1953 two men named John Q black, and John Van Allen witnessed a a flying saucer, land at the junction of marble Creek and Jordan Creek, where a small gray man hopped out and collected water from the feather River. They reported what they saw to Ms. Belcher operator of the Brush Creek store, and from there the story took off. The Mercury Register said “ if it’s a quiet bucket of water you want Brush Creek is going to be a turbulent place to get it from there’s going to be an Earth style reception with radio broadcasters, newspaper, men, magazine, writers, and crowds.” The national radio Network was even in attendance on July 20th, 1953 but unfortunately for them and many of the professional and amateur photographers the flying saucer never arrive. We invited tour attendees to take a walk through the haunted Hotel Sutherland where locals have reported the lingering spirit of a sheriff that would watch over the ladies of the night from the hotel is rowdy years. However, from the 1950s to the 1970s the hotel was ran by a Lorraine McClendon Ms. McClendon didn’t stand for mischief in her hotel and went to bank robbers stayed at the hotel. Lorraine was on to them one of them fell dead at the scene of the holdup next door and the other was caught a
Honoring Alberta Tracy the Lady of Butte County by playing her song to start our tour of the Thompson’s Flat and Pioneer Cemeteries.❤️
A short story from tours of the Ehmann Home “The House That Olives Built” today during the 12th Annual Butte County Historical Society Olive Festival.
Green Bridge History Walk Friday, April 21st at 4pm and 6pm meeting at the Veterans Memorial Wall. We will walk the bridge as well as the surrounding grounds. Hear the story of the bridge and the vision for its future. Be sure to bring water for this one! Tours are on an optional tip basis.
Polar Bear Plunge 2023
Red Carpet showing for Oroville’s own Movie Star at the State Theatre! Saturday August 27th. Doors open at 7pm. Admission $5. Tickets available at the door or by searching Marilyn Nash Night on Eventbrite.com.
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