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The Grange in Happy Camp, Calif., formed two youth baseball teams in 1924 that played against teams from other towns. A local poet named “Rex” described…
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Electric power is taken for granted today, but in the late 19th century it was experimental at best. In Weaverville, Calif., Dr. S.L. Blake urged the…
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The railroad contributed greatly to the growth of Montague, Calif., where cattle were driven to loading zones for rail shipment to Sacramento and San…
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The land around Kennett, Calif., was once home to some 250 Wintu Indian villages, but by 1835 their numbers had been decimated by disease and war. After…
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An authentic 1902 one-room schoolhouse is tucked away on the Del Norte County Fairgrounds in Crescent City, Calif.At the turn of the century, the North…
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The first Henley, Calif., schoolhouse was a simple building at the southwest end of the community’s main street.Big enough to handle 40 students, it was…
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In May 1939, the Fourth of July committee in Crescent City, Calif., chose pirates as its celebration theme, complete with treasure hunts, parades, water…
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The quaint, remote communities of Igo and Ono in Shasta County, Calif., are a pair of settlements established during the gold rush. Fifteen miles from…
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The small Siskiyou County town of Weed, Calif., finally embraced linking its name to marijuana by holding a Four Twenty Educational Weed Festival this…
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The town of Upton is among the many that no longer exist in Northern California’s Siskiyou County.It grew up around a small mill that operated in the…
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There once was a town named Manila five miles west of Gazelle, Calif., in Siskiyou County.A miner named John Harris discovered gold on Squaw Creek shortly…
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Gertrude Price Wardlow, who moved with her husband to Weed, Calif., in 1920, described the part of town where African-Americans lived as a snow-covered…
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In the 1850’ s, Hamburg Bar on the Klamath River provided good diggings for gold miners who found nuggets weighing up to 16 ounces upriver from Hamburg at…
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Around 1900 an angry mob sought but failed to apply frontier justice in Callahan, Calif. A man known to have a terrible temper had drawn a knife and…