Old ShastaArcadia Publishing, 2005 - 128 oldal Shasta grew rapidly to be the "Queen City of the Northern Mines" after news of a second California gold strike reached the ears of fevered and footloose forty-niners. Miners swarmed into what became Shasta County, stopping to rest at Reading Springs, soon to be renamed Shasta. A few, more practical fortune-seekers gained their wealth by supplying the gold-hungry miners with the necessities of life. Stages and wagons rumbled back and forth to Red Bluff on deeply rutted trails bringing supplies. Frequent fires devastated early Shasta and "fireproof" brick structures rose from the ashes, some of which still stand today. Shasta was a thriving community in 1872, until the Central Pacific Railroad chose to bypass Shasta and build its terminus on a nearby site to be renamed Redding. Shasta slowly dwindled to a ghost town, its buildings vacant and crumbling by the 1920s. With the help of descendants of pioneer families who teamed up with state officials to preserve the remaining structures, Shasta State Historic Park opened to the public in 1950. |
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Acknowledgments | 6 |
The World Rushed to Shasta | 19 |
Queen City of the Northern Mines | 39 |
Faces in the Crowd | 63 |
One Tough Town | 101 |
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Alexander Higgins American Indians Anna arrived in Shasta Bakery became Bell Benjamin Shurtleff Blair boomtown born in Shasta brick building Bruce Lynn built Charles Hotel Charles McDonald Charter Oak Chinese church citizens of Shasta Coffey county seat Creek daughter Dobrowsky Drive drugstore early elected Fargo Fort Vancouver Grotefend Helene Bacon Boggs Historic Park Isaacs JAMES John John Sutter Joseph left to right letter sheet Litsch Store Lorenz Garrecht Lower Springs Mae Helene Bacon Main Street married Masonic mercantile miners mining moved to Redding newspaper Northern California Oregon owners Peter Lassen photograph pictured pioneer Placer mining Pryor railroad Reading's Sacramento River saloon San Francisco Schroter SHASTA CAL Shasta County Shasta Courier Shasta Interpretive Association Shasta residents Shasta State Historic sheriff Smith sold Southern Pacific Railroad Sprague stage driver town of Shasta Trinity County Valley W. L. Carter wagon wife William Wintuns