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Area History

The Shasta Cascade region of California, to which Redding is the hub, is rich in pioneer, American Indian, and gold rush history.

Bicycling through Time-History along the Sacramento River

Historical Sites on the Sacramento River Trail

Shasta Historical Society
  • 1449 Market Street
  • Redding, CA 96001
  • Phone: (530) 243-3720

The Shasta Historical Society was formed on January 19, 1930, by a group of people who had been collecting then-living pioneers' accounts of their lives in the Gold Rush days. These accounts were then


Shasta State Historic Park
  • Hwy 299
  • Shasta, CA 96087

Six miles west of Redding a row of old, half-ruined, brick buildings remind passing motorists that Shasta City, the lusty "Queen City" of California's northern mining district, once stood on