William Semple Green
1832 - 1905
Arrived, via Panama route, San Francisco, Oct. 10, 1849
Arrived Colusi1 County, July 6, 1850
Ferry boat captain, mail carrier, surveyor, editor, writer, legislator, Surveyor
General of the United States, California State Treasurer, irrigationist, friend of man.
On Dec. 18, 1883 posted the first water notice on an oak tree on the west bank
of the Sacramento River immediately east of this spot for the diversion of 500,000
miner's inches of water for the irrigation of lands on the west side of the Sacramento
Valley.
Dedicated by Colusi County Historical Society
Donated and erected by Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District
May 15, 1954
"............Thou shalt take of the water of the river and pour it upon the
dry land." Exodus 4:9
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