The Yank Ranch And It’s Historic Chicken Coup Structure, On Cow Creek Near Present-Day, Bella Vista.

This turn of the 20th Century building can be found on the former Yank family property which is now part of the historic Frederick V. Meyer Sr., ranch estate on Cow Creek near present-day Bella Vista, which can be seen in my recent video. It was Joseph Yank an early settler of Cow Creek who settled, early on, on this property which his son William would later acquire. Yank Creek runs through the historic Meyer ranch estate and snakes its way into Bella Vista. Yank Creek was named for Joseph Yank, a local rancher. 

A series of photographs in sequence of the historic Chicken Coup at the Yank family ranch now part of the Frederick Valentine Meyer Sr., ranch estate property. All photographs taken by Jeremy Tuggle on September 17, 2022. See below:

Above: an 1884 map of Shasta County showing the Yank and Meyer family properties on Cow Creek near present day, Bella Vista. 

It was William who married Adah Julia Meyer, a daughter of Shasta County pioneers Frederick Valentine Meyer Sr., and Caroline Louise (Notten) Meyer. They raised their family here. This structure was presumably erected by William Yank after the turn of 20th century, he used clapboard style wood and round nails to build it. This structure is a chicken coup which the family utilized for their chickens which they had on their property. It's one of the few remaining structures which survived the 1999 Jones Fire (26,020 acres) that burned through through the historic Meyer ranch estate property. This building is certainly over 100 years old. Watch the video below at the following YouTube link for further info and visuals. It’s located on private property.

Above: The Historic Meyer Ranch: Established 1853. 

THE HISTORIC JOHN MEYER GRAVESITE

Picture taken by Jeremy Tuggle on September 17, 2022. 

This sandstone marker marks the burial site of John Meyer my maternal great-great-great granduncle. The inscription is faded on the marker itself. When John Meyer was born on November 5, 1864, at Cow Creek, in Shasta County, California, his father, Frederick Valentine Meyer Sr., was 35 years of age and his mother, Caroline Louise (Notten) Meyer, was 22 years of age. John Meyer had seven brothers and six sisters. He died on March 6, 1865, at Cow Creek, near the present-day town of Bella Vista. John Meyer's father, Frederick Valentine Meyer Sr., was a miner and farmer who came to the town of Shasta in 1851 and settled in the area. We believe this is this only burial at this location. Picture taken: September 17, 2022. This historic burial site is located on private property on the Meyer family ranch which can be seen in my newest YouTube video below:

Video: the Historic Meyer Ranch: Eastablished 1853.

The Historic Meyer Ranch: Established 1853.

     

Frederick Valentine Meyer Sr., (1829-1916). From the collection of Jeremy Tuggle.

Video filmed on location September 17, 2022. 

Frederick Valentine Meyer Sr., was born on April 17, 1829, in Bremen, Germany, the son of John Meyer. He arrived at the town of Shasta in 1851 and mined until 1853 as records indicate, yet he does not appear on the 1852 California State Census. He was also a farmer who raised beans and corn and from his own grapes on his property he made wine as well. Some of which he sold. He had eight sons and six daughters with Caroline Louise Notten between 1861 and 1890. Frederick Valentine Meyer Sr., died on December 30, 1916, in Bella Vista, California, having lived a long life of 87 years, and was buried at the Millville Masonic Cemetery in Millville, California. Explore the history of the historic Meyer ranch in this YouTube video I produced. The Meyer Ranch is still in existence today owned by my cousin Betty and her husband Ernie. See video. The children of Frederick Valentine Meyer Sr., and Caroline Louise (Notten) Meyer are the following:

1. Anna Meyer (1861–1889) married Alva McBroom Sr.,

2. Mary Fredricka Meyer (1862–1960) married Franklin Reading Love

3. John Meyer (1864–1865)

4. Elizabeth Meyer (1866–1896) married Edgar Wade Howell

5. William Henry Meyer (1868–1932) married Mary Ellen Douease

6. Frederick Valentine Meyer Jr. (1870–1963) married Hattie May Cravens

7. Herman Meyer (1872–1958) married Grace Gertrude Gray

8. Caroline Louise Meyer (1875–1960) married George J. Boyle

9. Adah Julia Meyer (1877–1919) married William Yank

10. Charles Edward Meyer (1879–1962)

11. Olive Meyer (1881–1980) married John William Chatham

12. Albert Meyer (1883–1964) married Ollie M. Thomasen

13. Walter Byron Meyer (1886–1966) married Muriel Catherine Eells

14. Harry Andrew Meyer (1890–1971) married 1st: Eva Bullard, married 2nd: Annie Lucille de Bar Kellog

Caroline Louise (Notten) Meyer (1841-1908), the wife of Frederick Valentine Meyer Sr., she was the mother of 14 children. From the collection of Jeremy Tuggle.

RESOURCES:

Selected U.S. Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880, Shasta County, California, 

U.S., Naturalization Records, 1852-1932 for Frederick Valentine Meyer.

Land Surveys - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, February 6, 1858

Deed Book G., Page 80, John Schrader to Frederick Meyer, dated May 8, 1858

SHASTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY - GENEALOGICAL RECORDS 7-59. One card page front and back. INFORMANT: MARY FREDRICKA (MEYER) LOVE (1862-1960).

U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865

1860 U.S. Census

Leased - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, December 4, 1869

Fire - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, November 1, 1873

North Cow Creek - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, July 20, 1878

Shasta Items - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, May 8, 1879

Born - The Reading Independent newspaper of Redding, May 29, 1879

1880 U.S. Census

Married - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, December 3, 1881

Private School - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, May 14, 1887

Alva McBroom - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, May 21, 1887

Alva McBroom - The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, June 15, 1889

Mrs. A. McBroom - The Republican Free Press newspaper of Redding, June 29, 1889

1900 U.S. Census

Fred Meyer Jr. - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, March 13, 1908

Lived In County For Forty Years - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, August 29, 1908

1910 U.S. Census

Births, Marriages And Deaths - The Sacramento Union newspaper of Sacramento, January 2, 1917

Pioneer Farmer Passes Beyond - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, January 2, 1917

Left Eleven Sons And Daughters And 55 Grandchildren - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, January 3, 1917

MEYER'S ESTATE IS WORTH $6,000 - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, January 25, 1917

Veteran Teacher Of The County Passes - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, December 29, 1918

McBroom Sr., Is Dead At The Bay - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, January 3, 1919

Meyer Farm Sold In Court For $6,027.50 - The Sacramento Union newspaper of Sacramento, November 27, 1920

Shasta Historical Society Pioneer Record - Frederick Valentine Meyer Sr., dated: June 7, 1943

Frederick Valentine Meyer Sr., Pioneer Plaque file, MP-033 at Shasta Historical Society in Redding, California.

The Meyer Family Memories of Olive (Meyer) Chatham written by an unknown author, date unknown. Available at the Shasta Historical Society.

Meyer Burials, by an unknown compiler, in possession of Cindy L. Nelson and Jeremy Tuggle 

The Notten Family History researched and compiled by Marti Notten.

The 1916 Kimball Plains Schoolhouse

The Kimball Plains schoolhouse at the Cottonwood Creek Charter School in Cottonwood. Photograph taken by Jeremy Tuggle on September 28, 2022. 

Video filmed on location: September 28, 2022.

The Kimball School District was established on August 5, 1879, at Kimball Plains, a small agricultural community west of Cottonwood. That year, a schoolhouse was built for the community which was the only schoolhouse within the Kimball School District. Then in September of 1894, the Kimball Plains Schoolhouse caught fire and burned down. After the fire, the students were transferred to the Cottonwood school to advance their education. Years later, the Kimball School District was re-established on November 14, 1916, after a new schoolhouse was erected for their community that year. This school was located on the north side of Gas Point Road just east of Dry Creek and it was their second and last schoolhouse. The school closed down due to poor attendance and by 1947 or 1948 the entire schoolhouse building was relocated to Cottonwood and placed on another's school's property where it was utilized as an additional building of that school and remodeled. The school property which this 1916 clapboard style structure is located on is currently the home of the Cottonwood Creek Charter School in Cottonwood. The building is saved from demolition, but the Cottonwood Creek Charter School is looking to restore the building to its original condition sometime in the future. Special Thanks to Mark Boyle, Director of Cottonwood Creek Charter School in Cottonwood, California. Historical images provided by the Shasta Historical Society and Mark Boyle.

Link to Kimball Plains article by Jeremy M. Tuggle as mentioned in the above YouTube video: here. 

RESOURCES:


Our Schools - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, March 3, 1883

Cottonwood School Ends Spring Term - The Red Bluff Daily News newspaper of Red Bluff, April 20, 1920

Borrowed Children Keep Shasta School Alive - The Blue Lake Advocate newspaper of Blue Lake, January 31, 1931

School Districts of Shasta County 1853-1955 compiled by Veronica Satorius

William Joshua Hammans And The Founding Of Project City

Above: William Joshua Hammans (1876-1937) the founder of Project City wearing his police uniform and badge, next to his vehicle in Redding. From the collection of Jeremy Tuggle.

My paternal great-great grandfather was William Joshua Hammans who was born at Shingletown on May 9, 1876, to Henry Hammans Sr., and Hannah (Moss) Hammans his parents came to Shasta County in 1865, they lived at both Shingletown and at Ludwig’s Bridge west of Cottonwood. He married Charlotte Sarah Kidder on April 23, 1899, at Ono. She was a daughter of Reverend William S. Kidder and Mary Elizabeth (McFarlin) Kidder. Early on, Hammans was a farmer, and a stockman of western Shasta County, who served as a Justice of the Peace of the Ono township from 1908 to 1916. Then he became a police officer in Redding who later served as the 13th City Marshal of Redding, from 1923 to 1926, City Marshals are now known as Police Chiefs. 

Then, William J. Hammans bought land in 1931 near the town of Mountain Gate, and in 1935 William and his son Earl Eugene Hammans erected and operated a restaurant and merchandise store on their property, which they named Midway Associated Service Station and Cafe. In 1937 William and his son Earl started to subdivide the area with the help of W.T. Lanning, a real estate agent. Their subdivision was called the Hammans Tract located on Grand Coulee Boulevard which would also feature commercial frontage as well. People started purchasing from them that year and the area of Midway became a flourishing town later known as Project City. It was Hammans and his son who founded Project City, in Shasta County.

Above: is the Midway Associated Cafe and Service Station, owned and operated by William Joshua Hammans and his son Earl Eugene Hammans. From the collection of Jeremy Tuggle.

William J. Hammans was also an apartment complex owner that owned and operated Hammans' Apartments on Yuba Street, in Redding and, a grocery store in Redding called Hammans' Cash Grocery. Later in life, Hammans was a janitor at local Redding area schools and a prison guard at Folsom State Prison. He died in Chico, Butte County, California, on February 27, 1938, at the age of sixty-two. He is buried in Redding Memorial Park at Redding.

During May of 1938, W.T. Lanning proudly boasted about Project City in an article which appeared in the Searchlight newspaper, of Redding, and stated that his lots would all be located on 50 to 60 foot wide streets. Lanning also told the local media that he would build a lumber yard at Project City to make the demand of lumber sales easier for local residents to assist them in the erection of their future residential and commercial buildings in the area. One of the first commercial buildings erected at Project City was completed by Dr. Donald B. Marchus who was a local physician in the area. This medical facility was the first of its kind here and it remained to be the only medical facility in the Shasta Dam Boomtown region.

At a meeting on April 12, 1939, property owners of the area adjacent to the intersection of Highway 99 and the Kennett road, nine miles north of Redding, voted 38 to 52 that night to call the region "Project City" instead of Hammans which was the other name presented. There was an estimated population of 1,500 persons at that time according to one newspaper article. Over 200 people attended the meeting but only property owners were allowed to vote on the naming of the community. The suggested name of Hammans which would have been named in honor of William J. Hammans lost by four votes. However, a Hammans Voting Precinct was also created for the Project City area as well.

Then on, October 10, 1939, a second class United States Post Office was established at Project City which was located eight miles north of Redding, and one mile east of Central Valley, with the appointment of Howard P. Nelson as the first postmaster for this place. A one room schoolhouse was erected at Project City, that year, by E.J. Phillips. Phillips was then awarded another contract on May 21, 1940, to enlarge the school with a two room addition for a contract of $6,720. Project City saw a large influx of students enroll into the upcoming school year, and the school needed more space to accommodate their students.

Years later on, March 26, 1975, the second class Project City United States Post Office changed to a branch of Central Valley, and still controls the mail for the area today. The Project City branch United States Post Office is located on Cascade Boulevard.

Above: the Project City Market at Project City, near Shasta Dam, California. This photo was taken by J.H. Eastman. Courtesy of David Stuart.

Above: the headstone of William Joshua Hammans (1876-1938) who is buried in the Redding Memorial Park at Redding. This photograph was taken by Jeremy Tuggle on August 1, 2014.

Above: the headstone of Earl Eugene Hammans (1907-1974), a son of William Joshua Hammans and Charlotte Lottie (Kidder) Hammans. His headstone states: "A Founder of Project City". Also buried next to him is his wife Virginia (Dare) Hammans (1915-1998) in the Ono Cemetery at, Ono, Shasta County, California. This photograph was taken July 4, 2018 by Jeremy Tuggle.

Above: the Project City branch U.S. Post Office still exists today on Cascade Boulevard. This photograph was taken by Jeremy Tuggle on August 19, 2022.

Resources: 

Brevities - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, March 7, 1908

The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, October 3, 1911

Mrs. Leschinsky Buy Big Farm West of Ono - The Shasta Courier newspaper of Shasta, March 17, 1914

The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, January 23, 1915

The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, January 10, 1917

The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, October 16, 1917

W.J. Hammans to Be City Marshal at Opening of Year - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, December 22, 1922

W.E. Smith Is Marshal - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, June 17, 1926

W.J. Hammans for Justice of The Peace - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, June 17, 1926

W.J. Hammans Called Beyond - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 28, 1938

William J. Hammans Rites Held Wednesday - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, March 2, 1938

The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, May 8, 1938

Project City Selected as Name of Area - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, April 13, 1939

The Sacramento Bee newspaper of Sacramento, May 21, 1940

Redding Police Department History Project

Oral History of the Hammans Family by Linda (Hammans) Vest by the Honorable Judge Richard B. Eaton

The Hammans Family written by Virginia (Dare) Hammans

The Shasta Dam Boomtown Community Building in the New Deal Era written by Al M. Rocca, 1993, 162 pages. Published by Redding Museum of Art And History Center. ISBN: 1-884055-00-1

The Story of William Joshua Hammans by Jeremy M. Tuggle - The Covered Wagon 2004, pages 91-93, published by Shasta Historical Society. 128 pages. ISSN 0574-3680

A 1939 $100,000 JAIL REMAINS ABANDONED IN REDDING

On July 30, 1888, the Sacramento Daily Union newspaper, of Sacramento, reported the following future improvements for Redding which became Shasta County’s brand-new county seat, that year;

"SHASTA'S COURT-HOUSE

A new Court-house for Shasta County is to be erected at Redding. The plans and specifications of the architect, A.A. Cook, of this city, have been accepted by the Board of Supervisors. The building completed is to cost in the neighborhood of $40,000. The plan shows a neat and tasty edifice. There will be three main entrances, a large court-room, numerous vaults, and the structure will be ornamented by a beautiful dome, on which will stand a statue of Justice. The jail will occupy the ground in the rear of and connecting with the court-house, and is to cost $10,000.” [SIC]

Construction on the City of Redding's first Shasta County Jail was completed prior to April of 1889, when a fire insurance map was surveyed for the city, that month, which describes this courthouse property exactly like the above article states. Years later, severe damage was done to the Shasta County Jail from attempted jail breaks to natural effects and nature related damages. Then in 1903 the jail reached its maximum capacity of prisoners and it made the Shasta County Board of Supervisors re-evaluate the jail structure. They determined that the smelter smoke fumes most notably from the Mountain Copper Mining Company, LTD., at Keswick, was eating through structures of the Shasta County Courthouse and the Shasta County Jail. However, most of the damage was caused to the tin roof of the jail at Redding.

Another fire insurance map was surveyed in February of 1904 which shows another new addition in the form of a fountain in the front yard of the Shasta County Courthouse facing Court Street, and additional features were added to the Shasta County Jail in the rear of the Courthouse by that date. This jail now featured a wood shed in the back yard, and an additional structure with cells to incarcerate their insane prisoners. These new features were located in the jail yard which had a fifteen foot brick wall wrapping around it's perimeter backing West Street.

On August 2, 1912, a freakish nature related incident occurred when a single bolt of lightening during a lightening storm struck the Shasta County Jail at Redding, although the location of the strike was never found the sound echoed through the city, while it shook the building. Not one person inside the jail was injured from the strike of lightning. Even the incarcerated inmates inside the jail at Redding were displeased with the accommodations of the structure and found it poorly unfit through out the decade leading into the 1920s.

Above: is Redding’s first Shasta County Jail which was erected in 1888 for $10,000, along with the Shasta County Courthouse. It was situated in the rear of the courthouse property which also included a registered street address of 1313 Court Street. Courtesy of the Shasta Historical Society. 

Oddly, opium found its way into the Shasta County Jail in 1922, while the inmates who were non drug users witnessed other prisoners heating "hop" in spoons and administering it in their presence inside their jail cells. Additional narcotics were also distributed as well while prisoners passed them around from cell to cell by placing the drugs in hats and shoving across the aisle of the corridor with brooms and using them to get high. In 1925, narcotics from the evidence locker room of the jail disappeared and they were distributed amongst the inmates. Surprisingly, local authorities discovered that it was an inside job by one of their own officers. 

During the 1930s, the City of Redding was filled with tons of illegal activity and unsavory criminals while the city’s Red Light District (or tenderloin) was booming and the Ladies of the Night kept their clients returning for more satisfaction inside the brothels these women worked in downtown. While prostitution was rising the increase of syphilis cases climbed in Redding, it was District Attorney, Francis J. Carr who ordered all prostitutes to leave the city, or he would be forced to take legal action against anyone violating his orders which were based under the red light abatement law which was approved that decade and made it illegal for them to work in their profession. 

In addition, the construction of Shasta Dam began in 1938 and it’s construction was steadily progressing to be finished in 1945. Meanwhile, the Shasta Dam construction workers visited Redding quite often to drink in the local saloons and they caused many saloon brawls, and outdoor public intoxication. Drunk driving was also a regular occurrence which made local headlines and there were additional disturbances which were cited by local law enforcement. 

While the arrests were doubling by the local authorities, due to all of the above activity, the present jail, pictured above, reached it’s maximum capacity of prisoners again. This jail needed major repairs even though it was utilized by local law enforcement until 1939, for a total of fifty-one years. Eventually, the building which was unsound made the Shasta County Board of Supervisors apply for a grant for a new jail through the federal government. 

Above: the three-story 1939 jail remains abandoned next to the present-day Shasta County Courthouse on Court Street. A fence protects it with video surveillance around the abandoned jail property. This photograph was taken through an open space of the fence line by Jeremy Tuggle on January 16, 2021.

$56,000 was already placed into a special fund by the Shasta County Board of Supervisors to be utilized to pay for the brand-new jail. This was required to prove to the federal government that their portion of the jail cost was available before a $44,000 grant was awarded to them by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works to pay for the remaining cost of the construction of the brand-new jail. The jail was designed as a three-story building by a San Francisco architectural firm called Masten & Hurd.

The new jail was erected on the north-west lot of the present Shasta County Courthouse property on Court Street. It was C.H. Dodd a contractor from Stockton who was awarded the contract of the new jail. He placed a bid at $92,452, and Dodd was instructed to begin the construction process by September 26, 1938. 

The Courier-Free Press newspaper, of Redding, heralded this article about the construction of the brand-new Shasta County Jail building on February 22, 1939:

“Work Progresses On County Jail

The structure of the new county jail has been completed, and work of installing cells has begun. Half of the first floor cells have been put into place, and work is also being started on installation of the second floor block. All pipes have installed, and plumbing fixtures will soon be put into place. Each cell will have individual plumbing.”

The interior of the facility contained cellblocks which were known as cells. Each cell was measured at 4.5 feet wide by 8 feet long and it included two bunks with a toilet and a sink for the inmates. The sheriff and his deputies called them "tanks." Tanks Number 1 and 2 had two bunks each, and tanks Number 3 and 4 housed four people in each cell. The facility also included a kitchen, an enclosed prisoner drop off area, a dining room, a visitor center, a narcotics evidence locker room and an evidence locker room, with a laundry room.

Eight months later after the above article was printed, Shasta County Sheriff, William W. Sublett, transferred his office from the Shasta County Courthouse into a room of the newly completed jail building along with Constable W.A. Houston’s office, on October 4, 1939. The transferring of prisoners from the former jail to the new jail took place on October 5th, and Ferol Thorpe, of Redding, had the distinguish honor to be the first attorney to interview a prisoner in the brand-new facility. She interviewed her client an inmate named William D. Moore. Moore was charged with automobile theft.

Above: on a private tour of the 1939 Shasta County Jail, local historian and author, Jeremy M. Tuggle, is shown here inside a jail cell. This photograph was taken on March 26, 2016. 

Other inmates who were transferred amongst that first group of prisoners to the new jail were Buddy Giboney and Rudolph Phenegar. Giboney was held and awaiting to be charged for his role in the murder of a local woman. Phenegar was charged with assaulting a woman with the intention to commit rape in the Burney area. It was Superior Court Judge, Albert F. Ross Jr., who sentenced Phenegar to a term of 1-20 years at San Quinten State Prison.

The most famous inmate housed at this jail was local serial killer and rapist Darrell Rich, a resident of Cottonwood, known as the “Hilltop Rapist” and “Young Elk”, Rich was arrested by authorities in 1978 for the murders of three adult women and a young girl between June and August of 1978. He was later sentenced to San Quinten State Prison, where he was executed under the California death penalty during the year, 2000. Presently, this facility has been abandoned and this historic jail was saved from demolition under Shasta County Sheriff, Jim Pope. This Shasta County Jail was utilized for forty-five years until the John J. Balma Justice Center was opened on West Street in Redding in 1984.

RESOURCES: 

Chico Weekly Enterprise newspaper of Chico, May 25, 1888

County Seat Expenses - Chico Weekly Enterprise newspaper of Chico, June 15, 1888

Redding Improvements - The Press Democrat newspaper of Oakland, July 24, 1888

Shasta's Courthouse - The Sacramento Daily Union newspaper of Shasta, July 30, 1888

Chico Weekly Enterprise newspaper of Chico, August 10, 1888

Redding Jail Full - The Chico Record newspaper of Chico, March 30, 1903

Eating A Courthouse - The Chico Record newspaper of Chico, July 21, 1903

Lightning Hit Jail At Redding - The Chico Record newspaper of Chico, August 4, 1912

City Jail Real Opium Den, Says Night Guest - The Sacramento Daily newspaper of Sacramento, February 26, 1921

Disapprove Of Redding Jail Accommodations - The Chico Record newspaper of Chico, December 10, 1922

1313 New Number of Redding Jail - The Colusa Herald newspaper of Colusa, December 27, 1929

Establish Fund For Shasta Jail - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, July 7, 1938

Jail Will Be On Northwest Corner Of Lot - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, July 25, 1938

Contract For New County Jail Building Awarded Friday - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, September 16, 1938

Ingratitude - Organized Labor newspaper of San Francisco, September 17, 1938

PWA Has Resident Engineer Here - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, September 24, 1938

New County Jail Equipment Arrives - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, September 29, 1938

Shasta Picketing Is Resumed - The Madera Tribune newspaper of Madera, March 6, 1939

Spreading Prostitution and Syphilis - The Organized Labor newspaper of San Francisco, June 3, 1939

New Jail Is Now Nearly Ready - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, August 11, 1939

Occupy Jail Wednesday - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, October 3, 1939

Sheriff Moves To New Jail Building - October 4, 1939

Move Prisoners To New Jail - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, October 6, 1939

Phenegar Is Denied Probation By Judge - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, October 23, 1939

Movie Gallery In County Jail - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, October 24, 1939

Phenegar To Prison - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, October 31, 1939

Carr Orders All Prostitutes To Leave Redding At Once - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 2, 1939

Prostitutes Start Exodus - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 4, 1939

Carr Reports Prostitution Houses Closed - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 5, 1939

Work Progresses On County Jail - The Courier Free Press newspaper of Redding, February 22, 1939

Supervisors Name Panel To Study New Shasta Jail - The Record Searchlight newspaper of Redding, January 11, 1977

Changing Skyline - The Record Searchlight newspaper of Redding, March 27, 1982

New Jail Starting To Fall in Place - The Record Searchlight newspaper of Redding, April 16, 1983

VF 364 Shasta County Jails on file at Shasta Historical Society

Three Known Murderers Had North State Victims - The Record Searchlight newspaper of Redding, November 20, 2010

Historic U.S. Route Highway 99: Bailey's Cove Walk And Drive Towards O'Brien Inlet

Here is one section of historic U.S. Route Highway 99 which is usually under the water line of Shasta Lake when this reservoir is full. This portion only comes out of the water when we're in drought, and some of this historic route is still above the water line year round but is an oft-forgotten section of the route by locals who drive it regularly as motorist drive into O'Brien Inlet from Bailey's Cove. Today's water level is: 932.31-feet below full pool elevation. This video was filmed on August 27, 2022.