SHASTA COUNTY history

1853 May 14, Shasta Courier, Shasta, California - FROM FRENCH GULCH - A correspondent, "W.G.D." assures us that the French Gulch mines have yielded, for a long time past, equal to those of any portion of Northern California.

1854 June 24, Shasta Courier, Shasta, California - CANON COURSE - A race will be run over this course on the 3rd of July, between "Yreka Bally" owned by McIntosh, and "Ben Franklin" owned by Cooley.

1855 July 19, Thomas A. Freeman, First Postmaster.~

1856 October 6, Sacramento Daily Union - A THROW OFF - The Shasta Courier says the race [Horse Race] at the Canon House, in that county, between Emigrant Lizzie and Missouri Joe, on Saturday, Sept.

1857 April 3, Sacramento Daily Union, ". . .The dry diggings in the vicinity of Buckeye are now paying well.

1858 August 28, Shasta Courier, Shasta, California - Election - John S. Follensbee, Inspector; E.J. Exley and Charles Stuart, Judges.~

1859 January 16, Elias Anderson, Postmaster.~

1860 May 9, Canon House School established.~

1861 March 30, Shasta Courier, Shasta, California - STRUCK BY LIGHTNING - On Sabbath last, near the Canon House, a wagon, with freight for S. Seelig, and Hollub & Isaacs of this place [Shasta] belonging to J.H. Gossett, of Red Bluff, was struck by lightening.

"At a large and respectable meeting of the people of Churntown held on the 11th of October, 1864, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:

1866 December 8, Shasta Courier, Shasta, California - STAGE UPSET - The Red Bluff stage was upset near the Canon House, on Monday morning last, while passing a bad place in the road.

1867 April 13, Shasta Courier, Shasta, California - SOLD OUT - Crocker & Blair have purchased N.C. Farrington's saw mill, on Brandy Creek.

1870 February 5, Shasta Courier, Shasta, California - WILD CATS - A few days ago Joseph Crocker, a boy of about twelve, was out hunting on Brandy Creek, when his dog treed a couple of large wild cats.

1871 March 18, Shasta Courier, Shasta, California - BORN - Near Well's Ferry, March 7, the wife of Q.N. Atkins, of a son.~

1872 August 31, Shasta Courier, Shasta, California - Buckeye Precinct (Township No.

1873 December 6, Weekly Shasta Courier, Shasta, California - SCHOOL REPORT - Report of Centreville District School for the month ending Nov.

1875 August 3, Eureka School established.

Consequently in the Great Register for the County of Shasta, California, 1877, residents are listed in both locales.

1878 May 11, Central School established. (Near Anderson and Oak Knoll)~

1881 June 17, United States Post Office discontinued and service moved to Igo.~

1883 November 25, Charles W. Richardson, Postmaster.~

1885 July 10, James F. Bedford, Postmaster.~

1886, Republican Free Press - An old California miner named Becker, who has mined all over the Pacific Coast, last week struck what he believes to be a rich mine about one and a half miles west of Centerville near Clear Creek.

1887 July 7, Lone Tree School established between Anderson and Balls Ferry.~

1889 June 12, San Francisco Bulletin, The Redding Democrat says: A new quartz discovery was made by an old prospector named Brown, about two weeks ago on the old Gage place on the divide between Shasta and Centerville that promises to make a rich mine.

1892 May 14, Free Press, Shasta, California - Board of Supervisors - Petition for change of boundaries of Mountain Grove and Atkins school districts refused.~

1894 June 15, Charles J. Bedford, Postmaster.~

1899 February 8, Daniel Zumwalt, Postmaster.~

1901 April 30, Herman J. Seufert, Postmaster.~

1903 April 10, Lulu Dwyer, Postmaster.~

1904 July 15, Weekly Searchlight, Redding, California - Judge George Boyle, Justice of the Peace of Buckeye Township, had business at the Court House in Redding yesterday.~

1905 - Nellie M. Braynard, Teacher, Bella Vista.~

1907 January 10, Grace E. Fuller, Postmaster.~

1908 April 6, Annie Landes, United States Postmaster.~

1909 July 1, Anderson Union High School established.~

1911 July 8, Sacramento Union - Teachers Appointed: Bessie Maxwell.~

1913 October 23, Sacramento Bee - COW CREEK FARM SOLD - Henry Stacher, Sr., the pioneer, has sold his farm on Cow Creek, near Basin Hollow, to C.A. Hufford and William Fritz.

1914 March 10, Edwin L. Story, Postmaster.~

1918 June 30, Post office discontinued.~

1921 November 8, Augustus H. Johnston, Postmaster.~

Bayha is credited with building the Pit River Bridge Resort in 1922.

1923 March 25, Searchlight, Redding, California - Miss Myra E. Giles, teacher of the Lone Tree school, was in the county seat Saturday to attend the meeting of the County Board of Education.~

1928 November 1, Annie G. Bedford, Postmaster.~

On 1937 June 9, the Post Office was moved one-half mile east.

1938 July 30, United States Post Office at Buckeye re-established with Mrs.

1941 - Frankie Miller, Teacher, Bella Vista School.~

Tracks leading over the divide down to Pit River and a boat concealed there, indicated the route of his escape was over the river. --From "Our Storied Landmarks, Shasta County, California" by May Hazel Southern, 1942.~