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2017

January
February
March
Articles:
  • The Founding of Anderson
  • Notes on William Benitz and Rancho de Briesgau
April
Notes:
  • Southern Border of Shasta County
  • Two Smiths in Local History, Anderson Newspaper 1936
Articles:
  • Hawaiian Connection to the Development of Shasta County
  • Theodore Von Moltke
  • Clough Lime Kiln
May
Articles:
  • Mail Order Brides
  • Willie Pope Wallace: Soldier or Secret Agent
  • Who is Miss Jeanette Seawright
June
Notes:
  • Ono Farmer Fined, Redding Record Searchlight 1920
  • A Narrow Escape, Shasta Courier 1864
Articles:
  • Humboldt & Eastern Railroad
  • Confusion Over the Bradford Store
  • A Research Question on Major Seymour Beach Congor
July
Notes:
  • Federal Currency Not Valid in Anderson
  • Missing County (Klamath)
  • Cisquion County
Articles:
  • Local Troops Occupy Catalina Island
  • Local Tales of Lost Treasure
  • Research Question on Albert Cleveland
August
Notes:
  • Wilson Indian Cemetery
  • Swiss to the Rescue
  • Gold Rush Entertainment
Articles:
  • Missing Medal
  • Destruction Along the South Fork
  • What's a Miner's Inch
September
Notes:
  • Washington Monument, Alta California 1852
  • Lump of Gold (Lower Springs), Sacramento Weekly Union 1853
Articles:
  • A Baby in Every Bottle
  • Alonzo Hayward Verses Alvinza Hayward
  • Annie Montague Alexander and Shastasaurus alexandrae
October
Notes:
  • Justice of the Peace Jurisdictions
  • Fatal Affray in Horsetown, Alta California 1856
  • Death of Hayes Dunham, San Francisco Bulletin 1887
Articles:
  • Salt Lake Rangers
  • Dueling
  • Ferdinand and August Hurst
November
Notes:
  • Mining on Jackass Flats, San Francisco Bulletin 1856
  • Horsetown Miner Killed, San Francisco Bulletin 1856
  • Mass Meeting of Shasta Miners, Alta California 1856
Articles:
  • Redding Electric Utility
  • Abstract of Title: Lot 1, Block 7 Town of Anderson (Anderson Hotel/American Ranch Hotel)
  • Camp Riis
December
Notes:
  • Robbery Near Bell's Bridge, San Francisco Bulletin 1856
  • Robbery at Four Mile House, San Francisco Bulletin 1856
  • Mining in Briggsville, Daily Democratic State Journal 1856
  • Street Mining (Middletown), Daily Globe 1857
  • Gold Rush Mail
Articles:
  • Conger Gulch
  • Abstract of Title Commonly Known as the Washington Section
  • Huling Creek

2018

January
Notes:
  • Horsetown Mines, San Francisco Bulletin 1880
  • Placer Miners Still Active, Oregonian 1908
  • Rich Quartz Near Shasta, San Francisco Bulletin 1880
Articles:
  • Unrecorded Eola Rebekah Lodge #256 of Igo
  • Winchester Post No. 105 Grand Army of the Republic (Anderson)
  • Acquisition Notes: Chinese Coins from Piety Hill
February
Notes:
  • Death of Mrs. Freitas, Redding Morning Searchlight 1899
  • Death of "Charley" Look Hop's Wife, Redding Morning Searchlight 1899
​Articles:
  • ​General Asher Taylor
  • The James Thomas Black Family of Anderson
  • Ghost Dance Among the Wintu
March
Notes:
  • Dedication of the Ono Church, Redding Morning Searchlight 1899
  • Accidental Shooting of Gus Powers, Redding Morning Searchlight, 1899
  • Man Shoots Wife Instead of Chicken, Evening News 1913
Articles:
  • California in the Mexican Border Crisis 1914-1917
  • Interview with William "Billy" Guill
  • Adam-Mieske Family
April
Notes:
  • Last Machinery for Igo Placers, Redding Free Press 1913
  • Cottonwood Creek Gets $37,000 Gold Boat, Redding Searchlight 1938
  • Mountain Lion Kills Valuable Dog, Redding Free Press 1913
Articles:
  • Father Florian Schwenniger
  • Kidder Letter from Fort Whipple
  • The Loomis Families
May
Pictorial Notes:
  • Parks Barn
  • Middle Fork of Cottonwood Creek Dam
  • Cold Storage House on Joseph Selvester Ranch
Articles:
  • Gregory's California Express
  • Notes from an Old Interview
  • Stage Robbery in Igo
June
Pictorial Notes:
  • Fish Ladder at Saeltzer Dam
  • Texas Spring Quarry
  • Kingsbury House in Igo
Articles:
  • The Loomis Family and the Birmingham Emigrating Company
  • Interview with James (Jim) Fiske
  • Preemption
July
Pictorial Notes:
  • Isolated Grave of Leonard Noble Off Zogg Mine Road
  • Tom Edmunds Cabin
  • Richland Baptist Church in Ono
Articles:​
  • Notes from an Interview with Vollie Bisnett
  • J.P.W. Davis
  • ​Praire Diggings Found
August
Pictorial Notes:
  • Construction on Messelbeck Dam
Articles:​
  • Interview with Jack McAuliffe
  • Reader Inquiry: Old Bully Choop Road
  • Igo Lost Channel Consolidated Mine
September
Pictorial Notes:
  • Mattie Gould House
  • Huelsman House
  • Woodfill Barn
Articles:
  • Smith Graves on Rainbow Lake Road
  • Kingsbury House and Barn
  • Warren Dunham
October
Pictorial Notes:
  • Gill/Paxton Electric Works
  • Pearson House in Igo
Articles:
  • History of the Ono Grange, by Merla Clark
  • Pioneer Dredge Company Town
  • The Los Angeles Mounted Rifles
November
Pictorial Notes:
  • Pearson House in Igo, Tehama County Illustrated 1880
  • Fig Tree (Placer Road)
  • Four Mile Bar Bridge
Articles:
  • Ballou Group of Mines
  • Addie Ballou
  • Piety Hill Monument Keynote Speech, by Jo Giessner
December
​Pictorial Notes:
  • Doc Flora House, Igo
  • Plott's House
Articles:
  • Brigadier General Samuel H. Dosh of Shasta
  • Duckett Creek
  • Reagan Ditch

2019

January
Pictorial Notes:
  • Wright Barn
  • Continental Mine
Articles:
  • Foster Road
  • Buell Road
  • Stockel Road
February
Pictorial Notes:
  • Kanaka Falls
  • Boyer House in Ono
Articles:
  • Dicker's Store in Redding
  • The California State Guard
  • ​Rector Creek
March
Pictorial Notes:
  • John and Ruth Miller House
  • Breslauer Way
Articles:
  • Graves-Miller Store in Ono
  • The California 100
  • 1852 Gold Half Dollar Coin
April
Pictorial Notes:
  • Prince Baker House
  • Payne Cemetery
Articles:
  • Buffalo Brewing Company
  • Redding-Delamar Stage Robbery 1905
  • Sheriff Sylvester Hull, 
May
Pictorial Notes:
  • Swasey Drive
  • Sydnie Jones House
Articles:
  • Abstract of Title Heyler Ranch
  • Zeis & Sons Ice Company, Redding
  • The Afterthought Mine
June
Pictorial Notes:
  • Taylor Lane
  • Old China Reservoir
Articles:
  • Stage Robberies of July 6 and 8, 1895
  • Champions of Honor
  • John J. Wheelock - William H. Pratt Note
July
Pictorial Notes:
  • French Gulch Post Office
Articles:
  • Dr. William N. Guptill
  • Stage Robbery of October 1891
  • Sheriff William Ely Hopping
  • The Leighton Brothers
August
Pictorial Notes:
  • Anderson Post Office
Articles:
  • Post Office Appointment: James R. Pile, Horsetown 1856
  • Loren Dana
  • James Gleason
  • Missing Cemetery: Beegum/Wilcott
September
Pictorial Notes:
  • Doll Family Grave, Ono
  • Donelson Grave Site, Ono
Articles:
  • William H. Howard & Abraham Jones, Shasta County Stage Robbers
  • George Brumley Martin Family
  • John Beaumont Family
October
Pictorial Notes:
  • Barbara Glass Grave
  • Fann-Slaughter Cemetery, Ono
Articles:
  • Stonewall Jackson Arthur, Shasta County Stage Robber
  • Jeremiah Coughlin Family
  • Charles Ezra Fisher Family
November
Pictorial Notes:
  • Barr Ranch Cemetery
  • Canon Bottom Cemetery
Articles:
  • Max L. Hagedorn Family
  • Mary Amelia (Dyke) Dunham
  • Henry Rockhold Family
December
Pictorial Notes:
  • Chicago Mine
  • Vossen Barn
Articles:
  • R.L. Sykes, Shasta County Stage Robber & Murderer
  • George Willis Raymond Family
  • Peter A. Simon Family

2020

January
Pictorial Notes:
  • Schilling Post Office
  • Hazel Creek Post Office
Articles:
  • Miss Rubenia Mitchell's Postcard Album
  • Lamoine
  • Land Documents: David King and Leonard Kidd
February
Pictorial Notes:
  • Post Card: Hayfork (E.J. Williams/W.D. Ross)
  • Shasta Springs Resort and Shasta Retreat
Articles:
  • Letter from Col. Wright Concerning Indian Census, 1854
  • Parkview Area
  • Brown & Maguire Express, Copper City
March
Pictorial Notes:
  • Ingot and Buckeye Post Offices
  • Dedication of Benton Airfield 1929
Articles:
  • Court Documents: 1878 William Harles vs. James Sallee
  • Court Documents: 1878 People vs. Frank Stearns
  • Post Offices of Shasta County
April
Pictorial Notes:
  • Inwood Post Office
  • Larkin Post Office
Articles:
  • Court Documents:1879 People vs. Brown, Mayhem in Copper City
  • Rev. John Marion Johnston
  • Eleazer Gilson Family of Eagle Creek
May
Pictorial Notes:
  • Coram Post Office
  • Dana Post Office
Articles:
  • Court Documents: 1876 A.P. Gipson vs. Alexander Buckhart
  • Murder Trial of A.P. Gipson
  • Rhodes & Company Check from W.P. Daingerfield
June
Pictorial Notes:
  • Ball's Ferry Post Office
  • Olinda Post Office
Articles:
  • Court Documents: 1878 People vs. Nero Herrington
  • Note from Arthur A. Baker to William Lowden
  • Rolla Arbuckle
July
Pictorial Notes:
  • Oak Post Office
  • Pollock Post Office
Articles:
  • Rhodes & Co. Bankers Check Payable to J.R. Gilbert
  • Deed for the Paragon Building, Redding 1916
  • Charles B. Lindsey
August
Pictorial Notes:
  • Taylor Post Office
  • Round Mountain Post Office
Articles:
  • The Redding Steam Laundry and the Copley Train Robber of 1904
  • USS Shasta
  • Court Documents, Robbery and Arson 1878
September
Pictorial Notes:
  • Baird Post Office
  • Keswick Post Office
Articles:
  • Edward Sweeney, Shasta Superior Court Judge
  • Court Documents, Grand Larceny 1879
  • Shelton Cemetery
October
Pictorial Notes:
  • Cayton and Fern Post Office
  • Project City Post Office
Articles:
  • Adams Express Company
  • Carl Munter, General Merchandise, Anderson
  • Beecher & Champlin, Anderson
November
Pictorial Notes:
  • Manzanita Lake Post Office
  • Bank of Shasta County Check
  • Bayles Post Office
  • Cassel Post Office
Articles:
  • David Nelson Honn
  • George Washington Shelton
  • Dr. Thomas Jefferson Edgecomb
  • Reader Assistance: Court Documents, Michael Driscoll 1878
December
Pictorial Notes:
  • Shasta Post Office
  • Cottonwood Post Office
  • Hat Creek Post Office
  • Heroult Post Office
Articles:
  • Charles Craddock
  • Stephen Gilbert Joseph Roycroft
  • Alfred Becker

2021

January 2021
Pictorial Notes:
  • Ono Post Office
  • Knob Post Office
  • Kimberly Post Office
  • Mammoth Post Office
Articles:
  • Gertrude Aloha Treat
  • John Mathias Layton
  • Merle Wallace Roberts
February 2021
Pictorial Notes:
  • Ydalpom Post Office
  • Horsetown Post Office
  • Matheson Post Office
  • Millville Post Office
Articles:
  • J.P. Burbank
  • Frank Morris Siggins, PH. G.
  • Louis Cohn
March 2021
Pictorial Notes:
  • Viola Post Office
  • Map of California Meridians
  • Stella Post Office
  • Palo Cedro Post Office
Articles:
  • William Armstrong Albertson
  • Amos Augustus Welch
  • Orson Dean Richmond
  • Railroad Post Office Routes in Shasta County
April 2021
Pictorial Notes:
  • Red Bluffs Post Office
  • Shasta Cam Post Office
  • Shingletown Post Office
  • Igo Post Office
Articles:
  • Dr. Sanford G. Belmeyer
  • Dr. John Edward Mooers
  • James W. Phillips
  • Frank E. Story
  • ​Earl Howard and Mary Coker
May 2021
Pictorial Notes:
  • Whitmore Post Office
  • Gas Point Post Office
  • Big Bend Post Office
  • Fall River Mills Post Office
Articles:
  • Paul and Audrey Jolly
  • Legal Document 1878 Theft of a Pig
  • Dennis Desmond
June 2021
Pictorial Notes:
  • O'Brien Post Office
  • Kennett Post Office
  • Pittville Post Office
  • Platina Post Office
Articles:
  • Thomas James Houston
  • Alexander M. Rosborough, District Judge
  • Legal Documents, Writ of Habeus Corpus 1878
  • Joseph E. Landis
  • Julius F. Cornaz
July 2021
Pictorial Notes:
  • Wengler Post Office
  • Bella Vista Post Office
  • Buckeye Post Office
  • Castle Crags Post Office
Articles:
  • James S. Smithson
  • Samuel Newton Witherow
  • History of the Alva Graves Ranch and Andersonville
  • ​The Theodore G. Disney Family in Shasta County
August 2021
Pictorial Notes:
  • Antler Post Office
  • Castella Post Office
  • McArthur Post Office
  • Winthrop Post Office
Articles:
  • Post Card from Rudolph Saeltzer
  • Dr. James E. Pelham
  • Sheriff J. L. Montgomery
  • Butterway Brothers
  • Andrew J. Woodward
September 2021
Pictorial Notes:
  • Fern Post Office
  • Copley Post Office
  • Fielding Post Office
  • Swasey Post Office
Articles:
  • Legal Documents: People vs. Tipton
  • Alexander Ludwig
  • Elias Twine
  • ​George Hugh Orr
October 2021
Pictorial Notes:
  • Middlefork Post Office
  • Blair Post Office
  • Copper City Post Office
  • Lakehead Post Office
Articles:
  • Legal Documents 1878: Samuel E. Banks vs. Thomas H. Maupin
  • Robert Pitt
  • Spread Eagle Mine and Onn Copper Company
November 2021
Pictorial Notes:
  • Old Station Post Office
  • Carbon Post Office
  • Plateau Post Office
  • Toyon Post Office
  • Highway Post Office
Articles:
  • Legal Documents 1878: Illegal Branding of Sheep
  • Morris Dempse Lack
  • Hiram Rufus Baker
December 2021
Pictorial Notes:
  • Montgomery Creek Post Office
  • Mabel Post Office
  • Burney Post Office
Articles:
  • Legal Documents 1875: Horse and Mule Theft
  • Joseph P. Burbank
  • Lulu E. White

2022

January 2022
Pictorial Notes:
  • Shasta County Poll Tax Receipt
  • People v. Joseph Waugh
  • People v. Moore, Burgett, & Depraix
  • Burgess Post Office
Articles:
  • Legal Doccument 1875 G.C. Schroter v. John Madison​
  • George Ludwig Bayha
  • William Charles Gover
  • Raph Rainaldi
February 2022
Pictorial Notes:
  • Elena Post Office
  • Help Needed: Jacobson Grocery Store in Redding, 1915
  • 1867 American Ranch Election List
Articles:
  • Legal Document Beford and Wright v. Paul De Pray
  • "Madam" Emily Preston
  • John H. Brown
  • Father Ralph Rainaldi Related Deeds
March 2022
Pictorial Notes:
  • American Ranch Post Office
  • Boralma Post Office
  • Central Valley Post Office
  • Delta Post Office
  • Mount Lassen Hotel Switchboard
Articles:
  • Rev. Isaac Owen Letter, Shasta 1851
  • O. C. Lee Letter, Shasta 1851
  • Robert Lee Reading
  • Kate A. Brincard
April 2022
Pictorial Notes:
  • Dolde Post Office
  • Flume Post Office
  • Eubanks Post Office
  • Fielding Post Office
Articles:
  • Orr M. Chenoweth
  • Latona
  • John s. Follansbee
  • Nettie Way
  • John Allen
  • Blanch Genevieve Cements
  • John Hansel Benton
  • Evelyn Katherine Blandin (nee Hiatt)
May 2022
Pictorial Notes:
  • Whitehouse Post Office
  • Leland Post Office
  • Manton Post Office
  • Oak Post Office
Articles:
  • A. Schuman
  • A. L. Price
  • Ester Hathaway
  • Charles A. Teel
  • Henry Dusendschon
June 2022
Pictorial Notes:
  • Oak Run Post Office
  • Old Diggins Post Office
  • Onward Post Office
  • Pawnee Post Office
Articles:
  • Ira Pratt Letter, 1850
  • Elijah Funkhouser and Family
  • A. L. Downer
  • Jesse Sutton
  • Errol Alton Yank
July 2022
Pictorial Notes:
  • Pineland Post Office
  • Portugee Post Office
  • Roaring River Post Office
  • Roberts Post Office
Articles:
  • Anna Nickolas Letter
  • Burney Valley Bulletin Letterhead
  • Andrew Jackson Millsap Letter
  • Fred Staser
August 2022
Pictorial Notes:
  • ​Slate Creek Post Office
  • Slotonis Post Office
  • Swasey Post Office
  • Wanamina Post Office
Articles:
  • Theodore Francis Broadhurst
  • Thomas Thompson Cabaniss
  • Otto George Trautz
  • Ellis Jacob Foster
September 2022
Pictorial Notes:
  • Pickney Post Office
  • Waugh Post Office
  • Agland Post Office
Articles:
  • Matilda Miranda
  • Reverend Roswell Graves
  • John Miller Estes
  • ​1950s News
October 2022
Pictorial Notes:
  • Albertson Post Office
  • Beegum Post Office
  • Bell's Bridge Post Office
Articles:
  • Russel Keton Bassham
  • Rosaline N. Bell
  • Charles Boell
  • Mary Elizabeth Burdick
  • Brigham Leighton Letter
  • Herman Emile Anton Giessner
  • Matilda Miranda Part II
November 2022
Pictorial Notes:
  • ​Brewster Post Office
  • Brincard Post Office
  • Deerhaven Post Office
  • Eilers Post Office
  • Altering Brands 101
Articles:
  • Joseph Emmet Cook
  • Jerry Culverhouse
  • Mary J. Culverhouse
  • Louisa Eliza Diestelhorst
  • Roy Smith Duggins
  • Samuel Cooper
  • Herbert Bass
  • Matilda Miranda Part III
December 2022
Pictorial Notes:
  • Elderton Post Office
  • Goering Post Office
  • Halcyon Post Office
  • Janesville Post Office
Articles:
  • Elizabeth Hampton
  • Guy Elmer Hansen
  • Mervin Bernard Kindleberger
  • William McKeag
  • William Raymond Reed
  • Philip and Peter Scherer
  • James Franklin Bedford
  • The Sixty Year Search for "Ramona"
  • ​Matilda Maranda Part IV

2023

January 2023
Pictorial Notes:
  • Kilna Post Office
  • Latson Post Office
  • Lisbon Post Office
  • Loomis Post Office
Articles:
  • Ida and Louis Schuckman
  • William Winthrop Sublett
  • Henry Syman
  • Clinton Laron Watson
  • Frank Carroll Wright
  • Matilda Maranda Part V
February 2023
Pictorial Notes:
  • Middletown Post Office
  • Parkville Post Office
  • Pitthree Post Office
  • Zinn Post Office
Articles:
  • George Washington Zinn
  • Isaac and Louise Zinn
  • Oscar and Martha Brauer
  • John and Meleta Brauer
  • Henry Butzback
  • Walter Scott Criss
  • History Challenge: Michel Weill
March 2023
Pictorial Notes:
  • ​Follow-up on Butzbach Family
  • Mug Shots
  • Emma C. Young
Articles:
  • Anderson Furniture Store Letterhead: Robert S. Roycroft
  • William H. Howard
  • James Young Hardware Company
  • Zimri Franklin Bullocks
  • Scandal in Anderson: Alfred Cross
April 2023
Pictorial Notes:
  • Burbank Brothers Anderson Cash Store
  • Shasta Lumber Company, Bella Vista
  • Follow-up on William H. Howard
  • Additional Shasta County Mugshots
  • Trade Cards
Articles:
  • Andrew J. Oswald and the Esperanza Gold Mining & Development Company
  • Chester W. Bryant
  • Leonora Hovey
  • Chicago on the South Fork
  • Abstract of Title: The Dilullo Property of East Anderson
May 2023
Pictorial Notes:
  • "A Baby in Every Bottle," by Merla Clark
  • Shasta County Mugshots
  • Trueman Head Rifles
Articles:
  • World War II Documents from the Home Front
  • Winona V. Simmons
  • John E. Hoyle
  • Commodore Kise
June 2023
Articles:
  • Letter: Ira Pratt, Sacramento, August 27, 1850
  • Letter: Milton Delaphane, Chasta City, September 23, 1850
  • Letter: James L. Freaner, Reading's Ranche October 11, 1850
  • Mary Ann Andrews and Alexander Robertson Andrews
  • Mary Shumate Andrews and Ella Andres
  • Solomon Dodge Baker
  • The Kohn Family and Patrick Carr
July 2023
Articles:
  • August Eastman Letter 1851
  • John Balthasar Weber Letter 1851
  • Solomon D. Baker Letters (2) 1851
  • Galen Gates Letter 1851
  • Ernest Sylvanus "Van" Bartell & Nettie Mae Taylor Bartell
  • Robert Holtby Bartell
  • Anna Maria Battams
August 2023
Articles:
  • Joseph Lawrence Bass
  • District Attorney Ephram Garter
  • Joseph Edwin Barber
  • Virginia Onn
  • Early Photographers of Shasta County
September 2023
Pictorial Notes:
  • Obituary for Private Joseph Billiard
​Articles:
  • Early Photographers of Shasta County, Part 2
  • Letter July 26, 1851, Reading's Ranch, Drury P. Baldwin
  • Letter September 5, 1851, Shasta City, John E. Dent
  • Letter October 3, 1851, Shasta City, O.C. Lee
  • Letter October 22, 1851, Shasta, Isaac Owens
  • Louis Behrle, Senior
  • Louis Behrle, Junior