Knights Landing CA (#0066)

Meandering through the northern, Sacramento Valley, portion of the Central Valley, Knights Landing was the first place I came to where I finally felt I was getting away from urban sprawl. Founded in 1843 it was once a steamboat landing on the Sacramento river and a communication point between the Sacramento Valley and other parts of the state. What appears to have been the downtown is small and now abandoned, though the abandoned bank building is surprisingly large (for a small town) and the gold trim is kept up quite nicely. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Landing,_California