DR. KENNETH A. DAVIDSON, M.D., AND THE HISTORIC PINCKNEY CEMETERY.

Imagine yourself as a physician trying to conduct a critical operation upon yourself, while a neighbor holds a mirror during this critical chest surgery. One inch the wrong way during this major operation could end your own life. Well, that's just what happened to this local medical doctor who performed his own chest surgery after a major incident at a former settlement called Pinckney, now a ghost town in southwestern Shasta County, just about 24 miles from the city of Redding, in Shasta County, California. His death is what established this local cemetery there at the corner of Foster Road and Gas Point Road which is the only remainder of this former settlement. Come learn about the life of a Shasta County pioneer medical doctor named Kenneth Anderson Davidson and the establishment of the historic Pinckney Cemetery.

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My Playhouse Was A Concord Coach, an anthology of newspaper clippings and documents relating to those who made California history during the years 1822-1888, by Mae Hélène Bacon Boggs. Published by Howell-North Press ©1942

Shasta County, California A History by Rosena Giles, published by Biobooks, ©1949.

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