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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18XY_westwood-club_Westwood-CA.html
Built in 1914 by the Red River Lumber Co. as a mens club. The club had a pool room, card room, cafe, tobacco shop and a bar. It burned in 1944 and was rebuilt in 1945. Bought by George & Vera Young in 1957 & was turned into a market. Their son Mik…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18XX_westwood-masonic-lodge_Westwood-CA.html
This building was built in 1925 by George Peltier and was funded by The Red River Logging Company. The building housed the Free and Accepted Masons and was known as Westwood Lodge #502 F.&A.M. It has been a gathering place of friends and families …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18XV_hamilton-dairy_Westwood-CA.html
The Hamilton Dairy opened in Big Meadows in 1860. In 1910 Canyon Dam was built, then filled in 1914, creating Lake Almanor. This milkhouse was then moved here out of the meadows above lake level. The Hamilton and Holmes families used the milk to p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12FR_stump-ranch_Westwood-CA.html
Stump Ranch, a stage stop on the Red Bluff - Susanville Wagon Road, was also the road's caretaker. It may have changed hands in an 1890's poker game. The name arose after 1880's logging left a field of stumps. So it could be recorded as swamp land…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12FQ_dinky_Westwood-CA.html
The "Dinky," a narrow gauge locomotive, was discovered n May 1996 after 82 years at the bottom of Butt Lake. It was used during the 1910-1914 construction of the Almanor and Butt Lake Dams. An H.K. Porter engine, it is thought to be the ?Eureka' o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12EZ_boardinghouses_Westwood-CA.html
The first boardinghouses were built by Red River Logging in 1915 near the mill in Pine Town. The consisted of wood floors and canvas tents. Nine 2 story units built on Birch Street housed 80 men each while two units south of Birch Street housed wo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12EW_red-river-bakery_Susanville-CA.html
Built in 1917 by the Red River Lumber Co. as a bakery, it supplied 3 stores and the company cookhouse. It was famed for its biscuits (as in biscuits & gravy) that gave the loggers the fuel needed to build Westwood out of virgin timber. It has also…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12EU_westwood_Westwood-CA.html
A "Company Town" for 44 years
Est. 1912 by T.B. Walker family,founders of Red River Lumber Co.
1944-1956 Fruit Growers Supply Co.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12ET_lassen-trail-westwood_Westwood-CA.html
The east branch of Lassen's Trail (1848 & later) passed near here to a campsite "near a small lake fed by springs,"
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12ES_westwood-firehouse_Westwood-CA.html
Built in 1913, this building has been the home of the Westwood Fire Department since its beginning. O.L. Lunt was the 1st Chief until 1918. Maurice Hertzig was appointed Chief in 1946 and served for 32 years, he was the last official chief. Once t…