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  • Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 at 9:15 am

Shasta, referred to as Old Shasta, is an unincorporated community in Shasta County  A bustling town of the 1850s through the 1880s, Shasta was for its time, the largest settlement in Shasta County and the surrounding area and is often considered part of neighbor, Redding CA Real Estate. The town was an important major shipping point for mule trains and stagecoaches that served the mining towns and later the settlements of Northern California. When gold was discovered near Shasta in 1849, it brought California Gold Rush Forty-Niners up the Siskiyou Trail, passing through the Shasta area, and then many continued to use the town of Shasta it as base of operations.

The site of the town is now a California state historical park called Shasta State Historic Park, which contains many of the original 1850s-era brick buildings. Living with the ruins of the gold mining town, a post office, the oldest Masonic lodge in California, a church, an elementary school, and a store are seven hundred fifty people.

As one drives six miles west of the city of Redding you spot a row of old, half-ruined, brick buildings remind you that Shasta City, the lusty “Queen City” of California’s northern mining district, once stood on this site. These ruins and some of the nearby roads, cottages, and cemeteries are all silent reminders of the intense activity that was centered in Shasta during the gold rush.Iron shutters still swing on massive, old, iron hinges before the doors and windows of grass-filled, roofless buildings that once were crowded with merchandise, and alive with the human sounds of business, trade, and social endeavor.

The County Courthouse, was restored to the way it looked in 1861 when it was converted to a Courthouse. The building is now filled with historical exhibits, and an collection of historic California Artwork that make it the central figure of Shasta State Historic Park.

This is another of the wonderful historic sites to visit along with, natural wonders and the great outdoor recreation in the historic Redding/Shasta area.

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