Coutolenc, California

Coutolenc (alternatively Old Lovelock, Brownharts, and Musselmans) is a former settlement in Butte County, California, that was located 8.5 miles (13.7 km) northeast of Paradise.

Arriving in the state in 1851, he had followed the mining and logging northwards and finally settled in the forest near Butte Creek, operating a small mill to harvest sugar pine.

He also retailed lumber and built a store to serve the settlement growing up around him.

When the demand for lumber ceased after 1864 because of the American Civil War, he left for Nevada.

During the 1880s a settler from the French Alps named Eugene Fortunat Coutolenc[4] had bought land in the thriving village of Old Lovelock, which now had a hotel and saloon, and began agitating for the former post office to be reopened.