Yuba Feather Museum and Gold Trader Flat

19096 New York Flat Road
Forbestown, CA 95941

530-675-1025

About Us:

The Yuba Feather Museum and Gold Trader Flat is an unique indoor / outdoor museum dedicated to preserving the history of eastern Butte, northern Yuba and Plumas Counties.  

Exhibits cover the Maidu people, mountain men and early settlers, Chinese immigrants, gold mining, the timber industry. giant saw blades and timber industry tools, Maidu and Chinese artifacts, mining equipment, early skies and snowshoes for humans and horses that shaped the local culture.  

Gold Trader Flat is a replica of an 1870s gold mining town with school house, chapel, hotel, saloon, miner's cabin, sheriff's office and jail, Wells Fargo office, pioneer homestead, mercantile, dressmaker's shop and millinery, and mine adit.  The Museum houses an extensive collection of old photos, primary documents of the period, and genealogical resources. 

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