Hills Ferry, California

Hills Ferry was a small unincorporated community of the northern San Joaquin Valley in Stanislaus County, California.

The ferry quickly became a shipping point for grain grown in the surrounding area, and was particularly busy during the autumn harvest.

By the late 1870s, Hill's Ferry had hundreds of residents with many more in the surrounding ranches.

[1] The Simon Newman Company store building was in Hills Ferry, which later served as Fisher's Opera House until demolished in 1904.

[3] In May 1868, Scottish botanist John Muir crossed here on his walk from Oakland to Yosemite.