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1900- Marysville/Yuba County Chamber forms to act as a progressive voice of business at the urging of the Sacramento Valley Improvement Association.

1911 - The Chamber plays a supportive role in the development of the arches in downtown Marysville.

1920s - As an element of their active promotion of tourism, the Chamber formed the Auto Tourist Campground at 14th & G Streets in Marysville. In that same time they create a motion picture of sights to see for both Yuba & Sutter counties for the State Exposition exhibit held in Los Angeles. The Chamber also receives a $150 monthly stipend from Marysville to put on band concerts in Cortez Square (Yuba County offices and jail - site of the first California State Fair in 1858).

1921 - The Chamber advocates the establishment of a community college in Marysville, which happens in 1928.

1921 - Yuba City/Sutter County Chamber of Commerce forms after a few years of debate.

1922 - As advocates for education, the Chamber votes to encourage raising salaries for teachers. They are active in promoting quality of life and economic issues.

1925 - Though competition between the two Chambers is always keen they are involved in many collaborative projects and come together to, "work for the advancement of both counties.

1946 - Takes a position to protest the "smoke and stench from the Marysville Dump" - now the site of Beckwourth Riverfront Park

1950 - Takes a position to support the construction of a third bridge across the Feather River

1970 - Both Chambers find themselves without Chamber executives. Yuba City Chamber President George Linteo and Marysville Chamber President Blake Henrikson convince both their Boards to approve a bold merger

• To create one economy of operation
• To create more cooperation on both sides of the river by merging their interests together
• To bridge the long-standing divisions between the twin cities and counties with the intention of improving our regional economy
• The Greater Yuba City/Marysville Chamber of Commerce (which becomes the Yuba-Sutter Chamber of Commerce in the 80s) becomes the unifying voice that Yuba & Sutter are one economically interdependent communities.

1987-88 - The Chamber is one of five founding organizations of the California Prune Festival, which grew into one of the largest festivals in the State.

1995 - The Chamber concludes the establishment of the Yuba-Sutter
Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Foundation. It also graduates its
first class of fifteen LEAD Yuba^Sutter students.

1996 - In cooperation with Yuba College and the Economic Development Corporation, the Chamber achieves the establishment of a fully-funded Small Business Development Center located in the Yuba-Sutter Chamber
of Commerce Annex, a project in its sights for more than eight years.

2011 - The Yuba-Sutter Chamber of Commerce relocates to the historic
Littlejohn/Madden residence, a Victorian home built in the Queen Anne style.