SHASTA LAKE DROUGHT: CAMPBELL'S TROUT EGG COLLECTING STATION (A HISTORIC SITE)

As Shasta Lake continues to be in drought there are many oft-forgotten relics and historical sites which keep emerging from the depths of this lake. On the McCloud River arm of this lake is a historic site pertaining to Ellery Creek. At this location the remains of a rock or stone structured building is visible which was operated by Shasta County pioneer and fish expert Jeremiah Blizzard Campbell, a native of New Jersey, and his son, Joseph Campbell which was built in the early twentieth century. This site was a fish egg collecting station for trout and they would eventually store these eggs in their incubators in this building until they hatched. Find out more about the area and about the Campbell's in my newest video to date. This video was filmed on location at that point on May 28, 2022. On that day the water level for Lake Shasta was 120.61-ft., below the crest of Shasta Dam or at 946.39-ft., elevation below full pool. 

RESOURCES:

1870 U.S. Census

Domesticated Trout. How To Breed and Grow Them by Dr. Livingston Stone. Published by James R Osgood, Boston ©1873, pages 347. 

McCloud River Salmon Fishery - The Pacific Rural Press newspaper of San Francisco, December 4, 1875

McCloud River Salmon Fishery - The Pacific Rural Press newspaper of San Francisco, December 11, 1875

California Pisciculture - The Pacific Rural Press newspaper of San Francisco, January 13, 1877

1880 U.S. Census

Pisciculture - The Pacific Rural Press newspaper of San Francisco, June 29, 1889

1900 U.S. Census

Anglers Are Enjoying Fair Trout Fishing - The San Francisco Call newspaper of San Francisco, April 27, 1901

Trout Eggs Desired By The Germans - The San Francisco Call newspaper of San Francsico, December 15, 1907

1910 U.S. Census

1920 U.S. Census

Find A Grave Memorial: Jeremiah Blizzard Campbell (1826-1910) (Disclaimer: Jeremiah B. Campbell appears on the 1920 U.S. Census as Jerry B. Campbell. He did not die in 1910.)

Historical Notes on The Rainbow and Dolly Varden Trout written by J.H. Wales, The Covered Wagon, 1946, pages 29-30. 46 pages. Published annually by Shasta Historical Society.

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

Place Names of Shasta County by Gertrude A. Steger revision by Helen Hinckley Jones, ©1966 by La Siesta Press, Glendale, California

Baird written by Alice L. Seamans, The Covered Wagon 1976, pages 7-10. 82 pages. Published annually by Shasta Historical Society.

Memories of Baird written by Eleanor (Reading) Templeman, The Covered Wagon, 1976. pages 10-11. 82 pages. Published annually by Shasta Historical Society.

Occasional Paper of the Redding Museum - Paper No. 1 by Margaret Guilford-Kardel. Published by Redding Museum of Art & History Center, Redding, California. Available at the Shasta Historical Society.

May H. Southern’s scrapbook’s. Nine binders. Unpublished personal and researched material compiled by Southern. Available at Shasta Historical Society. 

Livingston Stone, Pioneer Fisheries Scientist written by Frank E. Raymond, The Covered Wagon, 1991. Pages 17-27. 104 pages. Published annually by the Shasta Historical Society.

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