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    June 2, 2024

    Bieber was just a ford to cross the river and at that time was know as Chalk Ford. The town was founded on a homesteads consisted of 160 acres of claimed by Theodore Pleish in May 1873.

    Pleisch cabin on the east bank of Pit River, approximately 100 yards north of the ford, very probably was the first dwelling house on the present town site. Construction of buildings by Antone and Will Gerig the next year, gave 3 houses within the range of modern Bieber, C.A. Mayhew came in 1872, by 1875 Chester Babcock and 4 children, S.K. Packwood, Ed Harris, Ed Kennedy, James Jones, Richard Ricketts, Wm.H. Roney Charley Gerig, Antone Gerig, Peter Walsh, Charles Kenyon. Nathan Bieber appeared in Big Valley in 1877 to help manage Josephson store, then located south of Pumpkin Center.

    Josephson, operating for Bieber's Uncle Max Pasner, came to Big Valley 1876. All seemed satisfactory, and in 1877 Josephson and Bieber under the direction of Pasner opened the first Bieber store. At this Time, young Bieber and Josephson built the Bieber residence, it was the 1st home of sizes in the locality.

    With the increase of settlers and the likelihood of increased business, it was deemed practical to lay out a town. The presence of a surveyor saw that event read actuality in the year 1877. It is recorded that 4 buildings were erected in that year.

    For more Big Valley history bigvalleynews.net/Chamber/History.html

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