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The Yandanche tribe of Native Americans came to hunt and fish at the future site of Lindsay for centuries.

Future Military Governor of California John C. Fremont passed through twice by way of the Stockton-Los Angeles Road and the later Butterfield Overland Mail route on two of his four exploration trips.

Julius Orton, a seventh generation descendant of Thomas, served as security for a pack train headed for Placerville, a booming California gold mining town, motivated by his futile search for gold.

In 1859, with his wife and two small daughters, and driving a small herd of cattle, walked more than from the coast near Sacramento, to a homestead along the Tule River, southwest of Lindsay.

In the 1880s, Julius Orton homesteaded another () piece of land bordering on the property of pioneers Lewis and John Keeley, brothers who had taken on a homestead just a few miles southwest of Lindsay in the mid 1870's.