Shasta, California's Historic 1860's Courthouse.

Filmed on location.

In this episode of Exploring Shasta County History, I explore the interior of Shasta, California's Historic 1860's Courthouse, and its history, which still stands in the present-day town of (Old) Shasta. This wasn't the first courthouse in Shasta County's history, due to Major Pierson B. Reading's Adobe housing county records, and it wasn’t the first courthouse in Shasta either. It was actually the second courthouse in this ghost town. Come learn more in this episode of Exploring Shasta County History.

Resources:

Pacific Coast Dispatches - The Sacramento Bee newspaper of Sacramento, August 27, 1874

The Gallows - The San Francisco Examiner newspaper of San Francisco, August 27, 1874

Execution of Baker and Crouch - The Appeal-Democrat newspaper of Marysville, California, August 27, 1874

Hanged By the Neck Until Dead - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, September 17, 1903

Here's More About Romantic History of Old Shasta - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, March 10, 1940

Museum Impress Fourth Graders - The Record Searchlight newspaper of Redding, April 24, 1965

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.

Shasta: The Queen City by Mabel Moores Frisbie and Jean Moores Beauchamp, published by California Historical Society, ©1973.