This week our snapshot in time focuses on the Saint Rose Catholic Church. This photograph was taken during the 1970s at French Gulch, in Shasta County, California. It was Mrs. Rose Anna McDonald who donated the money and the land, across the road from the McDonald property, for the construction of Saint Rose Catholic Church in 1898. The first Catholic Church a rough board affair with white-painted benches for seats, was situated on top of the hill to the west of the site where St. Rose was built, where a small two-acre Catholic cemetery is still located. St. Rose Catholic Church was dedicated on November 21, 1900 by Bishop T. Grace. The church was renovated and redecorated in 1926 by Mrs. McDonald (1861-1946). This church was destroyed by an arson fire in November of 1998.
