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Each spring sees the return of the Bok Kai Parade and Festival to Marysville, California--which some say is the oldest continuous parade in California (take that, Hollywood Christmas Parade!). Bok Kai is a Chinese god of the North and said to be the god of water.
Originally part of the massive land area controlled by John Sutter that stretched all the way down to what is now Sacramento to the south, the city of Marysville was founded on all of the promise of California's heady gold rush days. The town's history predates California's admission to the Union. The town takes its name from Mary Murphy Covillaud, wife of an early founding rancher and survivor of the fabled Donner Party. Its founders envisioned it as the "New York of the Pacific" thanks to its role as a hub of banking and travel related to the gold rush. Alas, the gold ran out eventually and mining caused a few nasty cycles of floods. View Marysville City Guide