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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25PB_lassen-trail-pit-river-ford_Alturas-CA.html
"We crossed the creek here running between high banks,
and drove a short distance down the north west side
and encamped" — Elijah Preston Howell, Sep 6, 1849
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM257T_lassen-trail-foot-wear_Canby-CA.html
"My shoes are giving out and I have no others. Left one of
them and the other is barely on...At our noon camp I made
some moccasins of cloth" — Joseph Stuart, Sep. 28, 1849
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM257S_lassen-trail-conical-rocks_Alturas-CA.html
"Striking the river this morning I noticed a cluster of
singular shaped rocks sticking up in spires of a conical
shape 20 to 30 feet high" - Andrew Lopp Murphy, Sep 26, 1849
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24Y7_applegate-trail-pothole-spring_CA.html
"Camped at a magnificent spring of fresh cold water,
which we called Goff's Spring, in honor of the
newly elected lieutenant of the company."
-Levi Scott, South Road Exploring Party, 1846
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24X8_working-farm-roots_Alturas-CA.html
The first Euro-Americans arrived in 1870 when Presley A. Dorris, Henry Fitzhugh, and several other Dorris family members drove cattle and horses into the area. With land granted under the Homestead Act, the Dorris family established a livestock ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24WD_battle-of-dry-lake-memorial_Tulelake-CA.html
Two Warm Springs Indians, acting
as scouts with the U.S. Army were
killed at the Battle of Dry Lake.
That final battle of the Modoc War
was fought about 10 miles S.E. of here,
May 10, 1873. They were brought to
the Peninsula Camp, just south…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NE3_tule-lake-segregation-center_Tulelake-CA.html
World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument was established in 2008, in part to serve as a reminder of the grave injustices endured by Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Tule Lake Segregation Center. The Tule Lake Unit also preserves a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NE2_warm-springs-indians_Tulelake-CA.html
Two Warm Springs Indians, acting as scouts with the U.S. Army were killed at the Battle of Dry Lake. That final battle of the Modoc War was fought about 10 miles S.E. of here May 10, 1873. They were brought to the Peninsula Camp, just south of her…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NDB_burnett-cutoff-muddy-waters_Tulelake-CA.html
"We passed over ... smooth prairie for some distance. One evening we encamped at what was then called Goose Lake (at Copic Bay). It being late in the season, the water in the lake was very low, muddy, and almost putrid." Peter Burnett, Oct 1848
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NDA_applegate-trail-new-road-to-yreka_Davis-Creek-CA.html
"We leave the old Lawson Road for the new road to Shasta Valley (Yreka) to day It seems as if the road is one stone pile We have to goe a foot in such places for fear of getting our heads nocked off" Sophroni Helen Stone, Sep 13 1852
Guidebook a…