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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…
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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…
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"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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G17_captain-jack-stronghold_Tulelake-CA.html
From this fortress Captain Jack and his Indian forces successfully resisted capture by U.S. Army troops from December 1, 1872 to April 18, 1873. Other nearby landmarks of the Modoc Indian War are Canby's Cross, No.110 and Guillam's Graveyard, No.13
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1798_modoc-war-casualties_Tulelake-CA.html
It is difficult today to trace the disposition of all those killed in action during the Modoc War. This site was first consecrated January 17, 1873, when two soldiers were buried here. It became an official cemetery in April when thirteen enlisted…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1796_war-in-the-lava-beds_Tulelake-CA.html
From this command post, the U.S. Army directed part of a frustrating campaign against a small band of Modoc Indians. Determined to defend their homeland, the Modoc consistently outmaneuvered the Army, who at times outnumbered them ten to one. Just…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM178V_raptors-birds-of-prey_Tulelake-CA.html
This steep cliff of nestholes and crevices overlooks the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge and Lava Beds National Monument — fruitful hunting ranges for hawks, falcons, owls, and other birds of prey. A favorable environment here is suppo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16ZB_beds-of-lava_Tulelake-CA.html
Imagine watching hot lava flowing toward you at this spot over twelve thousand years ago. Like treads rolling on a tank, the clinker, cooling front of the flow fell off and was run over by the hot molten core. The Devils Homestead flow, which erup…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16Z6_river-of-rocks-the-devils-homestead-lava-flow_Tulelake-CA.html
At some time within the last several thousand years, an eruption of magna from the bottom of the earth crust sent a broad stream of hot liquid rock across this land. The flow started to your right, 3.2 kilometers (2 miles) south of here at the sit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16Z3_attracted-to-water_Tulelake-CA.html
"When I was a child?I played around Tule Lake where the tules and grass grow thick? We used to go out in the tall grass? and look for chub fish? and shoot at (them) with our arrows."Peter Schonchin, last surviving Modoc War warrior. The origina…
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