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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BOT_montague_Montague-CA.html
On January 17, 1887 L.D. Norton, Assistant Engineer for the Southern Pacific Company, began to layout this townsite named in honor of Samuel S. Montague who was Chief Engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad most noted for his skillful engineering…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BOR_tailholt_Montague-CA.html
A small settlement started here in the 1880's with two stores. A post office (established in 1888), saloon, blacksmith shop, slaughter-house, meat market, harness shop, race track, ball park and a few houses. Farther east was a grist mill. The pos…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BON_tennant_Macdoel-CA.html
Named after John D. Tennant, an official of the Long Bell Lumber Co. Besides the store that is still here, the town had a church, post office, library, hotel, skidsshacks, schools, and a roundhouse at the height of logging operations. Trains were …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BOM_yreka-trail-a-splendid-cite_Weed-CA.html
"Here we came in cite of the bute It is a splendid cite Went down the hill on to the flats Spencer & Brill shot a deer."- Hinsdale Truman Shepard, Sep 6, 1852
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BOL_mount-shasta_Weed-CA.html
Dominating the landscape, Mt. Shasta can be seen for 100 miles from certain points drawing hikers, skiers and travelers. Mt. Shasta rises 11,000 fro the base to the summit for a total elevation of 14,162' above sea level, one of the nation's large…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BOK_emigrant-trail_Weed-CA.html
As early as 1852 wagon trains of overland emigrants crossed 600 feet to the north into Shasta Valley and Yreka; and at this point the 1857 Military Pass from Fort Crook emerged to join the westward emigrant road.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BOH_mt-shasta-herald_Mt-Shasta-CA.html
Established Sept. 13, 1887
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BOF_strawberry-valley-stage-station_Mt-Shasta-CA.html
Across the road from this marker stood the Strawberry Valley Stage Station which served the patrons of this line from its completion in 1857 until 1886 when the railroad construction reached the valley. The small building across the road was t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BOE_sullaway-stage-stop_Mt-Shasta-CA.html
Dedicated to William and Mary Parker Sullaway the first family to settle in Strawberry Valley in 1858. Sullaway was founder of the Pioneer State Line from Yreka to Shasta, Shasta County in 1857. Forest Home located on this site was this first over…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BOD_bartles-camp-1856_McCloud-CA.html
Was a stage stop on first wagon road into Siskiyou County. The road known as Military Pass Road (circling Mt. Shasta to the east & north) was a link between Fort Crook and Fort Jones with the railroad advancing as far as Bartle. The town consisted…
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