6/27/2010

6/27/2010

6/27/2010

6/27/2010

Landmark information

  • Location:
    Shasta State Historic Park, Hwy 299, NW corner of Main St and Trinity Alley, Shasta
  • Plaque:
    Official State Plaque
  • Site:
    Existing
  • Date First Visited:
    10/11/1998
  • Date Most Recently Visited:
    6/27/2010
  • GPS Coordinates:
    N 40 35.940, W 122 29.538
  • Other Designations:
    National Register of Historic Places

About this landmark

Plaque text:

Shasta
Founded 1849 as Reading's Springs. Named Shasta June 8, 1850. Second county seat Shasta County 1851-1888. Metropolis northern California during 1850's. End road and beginning Oregon pack trail until 1861. Present home Western Star Lodge No. 2, F.&A.M., whose charter brought across plains Peter Lassen party 1848. Shurtleff House built 1851. Business section destroyed, fire 1853. Shasta Courier founded 1852.