Rural Encampment, No. 38, C. of R.C., Merced County Secret and Benevolent, and Literary Societies

Merced County Secret and Benevolent, and Literary Societies

Rural Encampment, No. 38, C. of R.C.

This order was started in Plainsburg July 19, 1872. It was for nearly three years a large and thriving encampment, made up of the best people of the town and surrounding country. But in the fall of 1875 it beagn to flag interest, and finally died for the lack of support before dawning of the new year. This encampment gave a splendid banquet in a grove only a few hundred yards from the town of Plainsburg on the twenty-ninth of May, 1874, which will long be remembered by the hundreds who were in attendance.

History of Merced County, California
Elliott & Moore, Publishers
San Francisco, Cal.
1881
Page 105
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft 6/09/2008

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