Branscomb is a town in California, United States. Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ...

Benjamin Franklin Branscomb joined an ox-team wagon train that was headed for California, in 1857. He was born in Jackson, Ohio, in 1832, the son of Joseph Edmond Branscomb. The family moved to Dekalb County, Missouri, where Joseph became Sheriff. According to family tradition, he was shot and killed 3 days before President Lincoln was assassinated, but a contemporary newspaper account says Joseph was murdered, shot to death by a Mr. Stoffel, in Maysville, on July 31, 1865, after Lincoln's assassination. A wagon (in old British English waggon) is a wheeled vehicle, ordinarily with four wheels, usually pulled by an animal such as a horse, mule or ox, which was used for transport of heavy goods in the past. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Jackson is a city located in Jackson County, Ohio. ... 1832 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Sheriff is both a political and a legal office held under English common law, Scots law or U.S. common law, or the person who holds such office. ... For other uses of the name Abraham Lincoln, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation) Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president... Maysville is the name of several places in the United States of America: Maysville, Georgia Maysville, Kentucky Maysville, North Carolina These should not be confused with places named Mayville or Marysville. ... July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining. ... 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ...

Benjamin settled in Sonoma County and farmed there for about twenty years. He married one of the daughters of the captain of the wagon train, Mary Jane Taylor, and they had 10 children, 6 boys and 4 girls. They moved to Jackson Valley, Mendocino, in 1880, where he homesteaded 160 acres of land and 40 acres more under the Timber Act. He was instrumental in starting the first school in that area. He built a large home which, after his family had grown up, he turned into a hotel. A small grocery store, meat market and livery stable were added later. After more people came into the area, he was able to establish a post office. Because he was postmaster, and the place had no official name, it was named after him. After his death, in 1921, one of his sons, John, inherited the property and ran it until 1959, when he sold it to the Harewood family, who built the timber mill in Branscomb. Sonoma County is a county located on Californias Pacific coast north of the San Francisco Bay Area. ... View of Mendocino from the southwest. ... 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... A shop that sells food, either a Supermarket or a much smaller place. ... A Livery stable has come to mean a place where horse owners keep their horses in return for a fee. ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Early 20th century sawmill, maintained at Jerome, Arizona. ...