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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8WV_fountain-fire-vista-point_Burney-CA.html
This facility is dedicated to the men and women,who battled the 1992 Fountain Fire,and those who have worked and are workingto restore this forest to a healthy and productive partof the local ecosystem.During the dangerous salvage operations after…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM84K_camden-house_French-Gulch-CA.html
"Success was called LUCK by those that failed. From observation, nine-tenths of the "luck" came from hard work and judgement."Charles Camden
Charles Camden, who stressed patience, perserverence, and permanence, built this house as a one-room st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM84E_toll-bridge_French-Gulch-CA.html
To cross Clear Creek in 1865 it would have cost you 10 cents to walk across, 25 cents to ride over on horseback, and $1.25 to cross by wagon. Charles Camden, the bridge owner, spent $20,000 to improve the road between here and the town of Shasta. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM840_tower-house-historic-district_French-Gulch-CA.html
Down this short trail, a bridge crosses Clear Creek just before the creek converges with Crystal and Mill Creeks. Prehistory and history converge here, too - on the Tower House Historic District. For more than 6000 years this area was home to the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MU_fort-reading_Anderson-CA.html
Located 80 rods north.Established May 26, 1852by Co, E 2nd Infantry U.S.A. Evacuated June 1867.Marked byU.S. Army April 6, 1934Sponsored by Shasta Historical Society
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MS_foundation-of-catholic-basilica_Shasta-CA.html
Cornerstone laid on May 1857byArchbishop Joseph Alemany O.P.Reverand Raphael Rinaldi, Pastor
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MR_lockhart-ferry_Fall-River-Mills-CA.html
Established by Samuel Lockhart in 1856 as a link in the first wagon road from Yreka to Red Bluff, the Lockhart Ferry crossed below the confluence of the Fall and Pitt Rivers near this spot. After a massacre in December 1856, the ferry was re-estab…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MN_captain-dick-and-richard-pugh_Fall-River-Mills-CA.html
In Commemoration ofCaptain Dick and Richard PughThe 1850's saw tension and turmoil between the early settlers and the native peoples of the Fall River Valley.
Richard Pugh, a native of Wales, was chosen by Lt. George Crook to be his guide when …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6ML_glenburn-community-church_Fall-River-Mills-CA.html
Erected in 1885 on farmland donated by George M. Rock, the Burgettville Christian Church served both the towns of Burgettville, which extended two miles to the east, and Swazey, later called Glenburn, which was west of the church. As the towns wer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5N6_old-station-post-office_Old-Station-CA.html
In the early 1900's Mel & Mary Shearin had a homestead here. Mel ran pack trains and guided visitors to the area in to the wilderness.
After this area suffered heavy devastation - the 1915 eruption of Mt. Lassen and the resulting flood and muds…