Coutolenc, California

The village of 'Old Lovelock' in the 1860s

Coutolenc (alternatively Old Lovelock, Brownharts, and Musselmans) is a former settlement in Butte County, California, that was located 8.5 miles (13.7 km) northeast of Paradise.^[1]

History

The original village at this spot was founded by the English settler George Lovelock (1824–1907), after whom the town of Lovelock, Nevada was eventually named. Arriving in the state in 1851, he had followed the mining and logging northwards and finally settled in the forest near Butte Creek, operating a small mill to harvest sugar pine. He also retailed lumber and built a store to serve the settlement growing up around him. When the demand for lumber ceased after 1864 because of the American Civil War, he left for Nevada.^{[2] [3]}

A post office called Lovelocks had been opened in his store but this now moved northwards to the present unincorporated settlement called Lovelock on the Skyway crossroads. During the 1880s a settler from the French Alps named Eugene Fortunat Coutolenc^[4] had bought land in the thriving village of Old Lovelock, which now had a hotel and saloon, and began agitating for the former post office to be reopened. In 1890 it was given the name of Coutolenc and remained until 1937.^[5]

References

Municipalities and communities of Butte County, California, United States County seat: Oroville Cities and towns Biggs Chico Gridley Oroville Paradise CDPs Bangor Berry Creek Butte Creek Canyon Butte Meadows Butte Valley Cherokee Clipper Mills Cohasset Concow Durham Forbestown Forest Ranch Honcut Kelly Ridge Magalia Nord Oroville East Palermo Rackerby‡ Richvale Robinson Mill South Oroville Stirling City Thermalito Yankee Hill Unincorporated communities Anita Big Bar Big Bend Blavo Brush Creek Camp Eighteen Cana Centerville Chapmantown Craig Cresta Dayton Deadwood DeSabla Dodge Place Dodgeland East Biggs East Gridley Elsey Esquon Fagan Feather Falls Helltown Hughes Place Hurleton Inskip Irish Town James Jonesville Junction House Kister Kramm Lomo Lovelock Lumpkin Mayaro Merrills Landing Merrimac Mineral Slide Nelson Nelsons Crossing Nimshew Oak Grove Old Forbestown Oregon City Oroleve Oroville Junction Paradise Pines Parkhill Peachton Pentz Poe Powellton Pulga Ramada Rancho Llano Seco Riceton Richardson Springs Robinsons Corner Roble Rogerville Shippee Stirling Junction Sunnyslope The Pines Toadtown Vista Robles Wicks Corner Wyandotte Ghost towns Appleton Avon Bagdad Bauka Bayu Berdan Bidwell Bidwell's Bar Big Ripples Blinzing Bloomer Brush Butte Creek Center Ville Chandon Channel Chardon Clear Creek Colbys Landing Coutolenc Craig Crouch David Dawlytown Diamondville Dredge Enterprise Eskini Evans Evansville Flea Valley Gimbal Gold Lake Greenland Gridley Colony Number One Gridley Colony Number Two Hamilton Haselbusch Hawk Ravine Hokomo Holhoto Honcut City Hume Hylandville Intake Isaiah Johnson Kalkalya Kulaiapto Land Las Plumas Lava Beds Long's Bar Lorraine Losee Luce Lynchburg Martinsburgh McKay Meadow Michopdo Mill City Millers Ranch Mortimer Moseley Mulberry Neals Diggins Nelson Bar New Blinzing Oak Arbor Ololopa Omit Bar Optimo Oregon Bar Orloff Ostrander Otaki Pacific Heights Paki Paradise Flat Phillips Corner Pipers Platts Pond Potter's Bar Powellton Meadow Quartz Richland Rio Seco Rock Creek Savona Soto South Fork Speedway Stanwood Summit Sundale Sunusi Swayne Swedes Flat Sycamore Crossing Tadoiko Taikus Tarr's Ranch Tilden Tolle's Old Diggings Totoma Tsuka Virginia Mills Wagners Wagstaff Ward West Branch Whiskey Flat (east) Whiskey Flat (west) Yankee Flat Yauko Yuman Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties