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The 150 year history of the Redding School District.
A really very interesting documentary about the history of Redding’s schools: I had a tiny (very tiny) part in adding to this documentary with an 1890 map of Redding I archived here at Really Redding in 2016. Click to enlarge: I don’t remember where I got the map, and unfortunately didn’t credit it at the…
Boot Hill graveyard…
…became the Buckeye Pioneer Cemetery. A rainy day seems appropriate for a few images. There’s only this one marker. The names date from the late 1800s. The entire site is just a parcel amongst homes on Irish Road just north of Redding. Hardscrabble lives came to rest here on Boot Hill. Ghosts in the live…
Visit the Courthouse Museum in Old Shasta
Before Redding existed, Shasta was the queen city of Northern California. Shasta’s mostly fireproof main street now lies in ruin. But you can catch a glimpse life in the Gold Rush era and more at the Courthouse Museum. The ruins are now Shasta State Historic Park. There are also live demonstrations of pioneer skills like…
Saloons in 1904 Redding
I was looking for some information about the long vanished Golden Eagle Hotel in Redding when I stumbled upon a Business Directory for Redding from 1904 at a Genealogical Site. I absolutely love reading through genealogy resources. You can learn so much about the history of an area and the people that lived there nowadays….