Quarter Horses for Sale near Rio Dell, CA

About Rio Dell, CA

The first post office at Rio Dell opened in 1876. Rio Dell was connected to Scotia by a ferry provided by the lumber mill. After the first bridge was destroyed by a flood in 1905, a ferry carried mill workers from Rio Dell upstream to Scotia; and a second ferry carried mill workers downstream to Metropolitan until a suspension bridge was built to Scotia in 1914. Many Italian immigrants lived in part of Rio Dell known at the time as Little Italy. This part of town became popular with some mill workers seeking moonshine, gambling, and prostitution unavailable in the company towns where they were employed.