Broderick (once known as Washington and today a part of West Sacramento), located in eastern Yolo County along the Sacramento River.
Washington, now known as Broderick (in 1966), had the honor
of being the county seat twice in 1851 and again in 1861 before the county seat became Woodland in 1862 where it remained. My husband Pat and I found this plaque mounted on a structure in Broderick and photographed it about 2000.* Peggy B. Perazzo (* Historic Spots in California, 3rd ed., by Mildred B. Hoover, Hero E. Rensch, and Ethel G. Rensch, 3rd ed. rev. by William N. Abeloe, Stanford University Press, 1966.)
The plaque reads:
“Yolo County Courthouse
“Around here someplace was almost Yolo County´s first courthouse. It was here twice - from 1851 to 1857 and from 1861 to 1863 - when it was stolen permanently by the ‘High Binders’ in Woodland.
“So be it.
“New Helvetia Chapter No. 5 E. Clampus Vitus
“March ?, 1970.”
(Photograph taken by Peggy B. Perazzo, July 2005, used with permission)
