SNAPSHOT IN TIME: A Touring Car In Shasta

 

This snapshot in time edition features a touring car parked in front of the (old) Shasta County Courthouse ruins in Shasta with an unidentified man standing in the doorway of the building. This photograph was taken by renown photographer, Chester Mullen, circa 1915.

SNAPSHOT IN TIME: Intersection of California & Oregon Streets, circa 1890.

This circa 1890 image of Redding captures an intriguing view at the intersection of California & Yuba Streets. An open space is visible with a rocky waterway and several buildings in the background. The buildings belong to D. Breslauer, the Miller and Eaton Drug Store, the Paragon Hotel, and the City Drug Store. A lonely tree appears in the middle of a lot and that lot is now the present site of the Lorenz Hotel.

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SNAPSHOT IN TIME: The Miller Mill.

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This 1943 image captures logging trucks with lumber on them at the Miller Mill. Pictured L-R: Carlton D. Stevenson (1915-1990), Lucielle Miller, and Loren Kern. The Miller Mill was located on Ponderosa Way in Whitmore. Stevenson worked the trim saws at the mill. This mill was owned by Elbert Miller.

SNAPSHOT IN TIME: Boomtown.

Boomtown also known as Central Valley, now called Shasta Lake City, with a row of buildings, three unidentified people are pictured in front with four vintage cars parked in front of them. Two of the businesses are the: Mint Pool Hall and the Silver Dollar.

SNAPSHOT IN TIME: The Saint Rose Catholic Church

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.

 

SNAPSHOT IN TIME: Whiskeytown.

Four scenes of Whiskeytown on Whiskey Creek. Two of old hotel, one street scene and one of two horsemen beside hotel. Date: circa, 1900.