Frank Joseph Stampfli was born in Switzerland and immigrated to the United States.

He then registered to pioneer out West where the Stampfli family settled in what is known today as Crescent Mills, CA and Indian Valley.

The local Native Americans of the Maui do and the Stampfli family had made relationships.

Relationships between the Maui do and the Stampfli's included local organizations such as the Indian Mission and marriage.

Albert went on to own the local slaughter house on the North end of town and a butcher shop 4 doors south of the current Gigis Market.

[3] The second generation of Stampfli's and Peck's continued to branch out with other families that had settled within the area as well.

In the early 1930s Pearl Peck moved away from the Stampfli Ranch and moved to San Francisco where she met and married David "Bud" Strong, an owner of a large nursery garden.

Within a year after Deryl was born Pearl became home sick and asked her family to move back to Crescent Mills where Bud Strong Purchased the Stampfli Ranch.

The corner of Stampfli Lane and Main Street marks the middle of the Ranch.

[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.2 square miles (11 km2), all of it land.

About 14.5% of families and 10.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.9% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those sixty five or over.

[9] Federally, Crescent Mills is in California's 1st congressional district, represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa.