Photographs
At the Montague Airfield
Pioneer Parade Yreka
Miner Street, Yreka
Pioneer Bridge on old highway 99
Gold dredge on Greenhorn Creek
Drama Club, Weed
Mill at Edgewood
Weed Arch
Parade Float, Weed
Hoo Hoo Park in McCloud
The Hottentots Band
Stories
Mac's Gulch
Images
Mt. Shasta from Edgewood on the S.P.R.R
Pickwick Stages
Siskiyou County from 1925 through 1949 saw the area through the depression and World War II. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) completed many projects in the region during the 1930s...including reconstructing the Clear Lake
Dam, building the Refuge Headquarters at Tule Lake, roads, tails, wilderness shelters, rock walls, and tree planting.The Dorris fire of 1934, in which twenty-two businesses and fifty residences were destroyed before the fire was brought under control. In 1941, several Northern California and Southern Oregon counties attempted to secede from their respective states to form a new state - Jefferson. The outbreak of WWII interrupted the efforts.
During the War, Tule Lake was the site of an Internment Camp, a World War II camp for the internment of Japanese Americans and Japanese living in the US, and of a POW Camp for European war prisoners. German and Italian prisoners actually helped in the harvest in the Tulelake basin during the war years. Highway 97, the Al-Can highway which runs from Weed to Alaska, was completed during the mid 1940s.
In the 1930's, Snowman's Hill, located off Highway 89, was a popular place for snow sports. It is reported that Guy W. Ballard met first Saint Germain in August of 1930 on Mount Shasta, inspiring worldwide activities that continue to the present, with Mount Shasta as a spiritual center. Other web sites of interest:
- California History Online from the California State Historical Society.
- The Tule Lake Internment Camp web site, with history and current activities.
- Photographs from Tule Lake from Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.
- Photographs and Artifacts from Tule Lake Internment Camp from Santa Clara University.
- The Online Archive of California (OAC), part of the California Digital Library initiative.
- Historical Photograph Collection: This digitized library of photographs, drawn from the historic photograph collection of CSU Chico's Meriam Library, is keyword searchable. Browsing headings include: county, name of person or place, and photographer.
- Siskiyou County Schools History, photographs, histories and records on county school history.
- California Heritage Collection at U. C. Berkeley - more than 30,000 images illustrating California's history and culture.
- The Significance of Mount Shasta as a Visual Resource from the College of the Siskiyous, including Artists through the 1950s.
- Newspaper and Local History Databases from the Siskiyou County Library - searches The Siskiyou County Obituary Index 1854 to the present, and the Siskiyou Historical Society's annual Siskiyou Pioneer Yearbooks. Does not display the articles, but lets you know where to go in library archives to find specific stories.
- Siskiyou Cemeteries Online, indexing the stones and markers of cemeteries in the county.