tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70383257213199664952024-03-13T14:58:52.736-07:00Siskiyou County Historical Society Outdoor MuseumBuildings and equipment in the Outdoor Museum.Siskiyou County Historical Society Outdoor Museumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17863040376718361030noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038325721319966495.post-41296052641618617142017-01-06T11:37:00.000-08:002017-05-09T12:21:42.833-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Miner's Cabin (aka Wildcat Creek Miner's Cabin)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The major gold
quest occurred in Siskiyou County, California between 1850 and 1910.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This cabin is typical of the small
mining claim operations that contributed greatly to the exploration and
exploitation of the County.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
cabin is made up of a single living room and attached woodshed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The roof- line is the same for both
components of the cabin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
method of construction of this building is primarily broad-axeing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WWXonE7FdLQ/WG_sZoFJSFI/AAAAAAAAAIg/6nGhUZCivsImzWcuFQCqx0Kv2572kiShQCEw/s1600/Miner%2B11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="147" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WWXonE7FdLQ/WG_sZoFJSFI/AAAAAAAAAIg/6nGhUZCivsImzWcuFQCqx0Kv2572kiShQCEw/s200/Miner%2B11.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Broad-axeing on cabin</td></tr>
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</span>“Dogs” were used to hold the logs in
place; in some cases the “dog” marks are evident today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(“Dogs” were either metal spikes, bars or
rods).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sides of the logs were
scored with the broad axe before a straight line was hewed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the one side of the log was hewed,
it was then smooth-hewed with the same broad axe and the next of four sides was
begun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The four corners of this
cabin are good examples of square-notch construction.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mf53efWkcwk/WG_vWpBD0DI/AAAAAAAAAJI/_N9pvpZhnegcdXZLdqJtDyNZlQadzWOGACEw/s1600/Miner%2B7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mf53efWkcwk/WG_vWpBD0DI/AAAAAAAAAJI/_N9pvpZhnegcdXZLdqJtDyNZlQadzWOGACEw/s200/Miner%2B7.jpg" width="141" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Corners on cabin</td></tr>
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original cabin’s site was situated on a terrace along Wildcat Creek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It included the remains of placer
mining operations such as washed out gullies, tailings piles and a ditch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cabin was built on Wildcat Creek,
three miles west of Callahan, by a French placer miner named Louie Lattimore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Associated with the original cabin, a
sub-terranean root cellar, the foundation of an outbuilding (possible shed) and
a trash scatter were observed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
site privy was not located (perhaps due the nearby road construction).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the exception of the root cellar
none of the structures remain on the original site.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Remnants of root cellar</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
the 1860s Louie Lattimore was residing in the Mother Lode country, more than
likely struck with gold fever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During
his stay he briefly encountered the law, and while trying to escape was almost
caught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hiding in a flour barrel
for an undisclosed amount of time, Louie evaded his pursuers and later headed
north.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Working his way into southern
Siskiyou County by Callahan, Louie built a cabin up Wildcat Creek and lived
there until he died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He never revealed
the incident that forced him into a life of seclusion and fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through examination of the Great
Registers of Siskiyou County, California, it was determined that Louie
Lattimore did not move into the Callahan area until after 1872 since he still
lived and became a naturalized citizen in Plumas County in August of 1871.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He first registered to vote in the area
in 1886.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowing that he was wanted
by the law when he moved into the Wildcat reek area to hide, it is safe to
assume that he waited and kept quiet for a few years before registering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If this assumption is correct, then it
is conjectured that he constructed his cabin sometime between 1872 and 1884.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>An
interesting feature of the cabin is the slit located in the south wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It probably was used for observation,
but it might also have served as a gun port.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gun Site</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
cabin was located on International Paper Company land on Wildcat Creek,
Township 40N 9W Sec. 23 in Siskiyou County.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cabin was beginning to be vandalized, and International
paper decided that rather than letting it be destroyed, its architectural
uniqueness should be preserved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
November of 1975 the cabin was donated to the Siskiyou County Historical
Society and moved to its present location in the Outdoor Museum located next
door to the Siskiyou County Museum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Many
of the rotted base logs have been replaced and the cabin put on a foundation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
cabin was registered with the California State Historic Preservation Office and
made into a “Point of Historical Interest” of the State of California in
1979.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As of a 1985 Forest Service
report by Ali Abusaidi and Randall David<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the land on which the original site is located belongs to the Fruit
Growers Company.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Setting the cabin up at the Outdoor Museum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before the shed was added</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adding the shed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shed completed</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Done!</td></tr>
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Siskiyou County Historical Society Outdoor Museumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17863040376718361030noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038325721319966495.post-65159147413043197832015-12-14T22:19:00.000-08:002015-12-14T22:24:37.332-08:00Big Wheels/High Wheels<style>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">From Roots of Motive Power Website and the
Hansen Wheel and Wagon Shop:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.rootsofmotivepower.com/logging-arch-redding-big-wheels">http://www.rootsofmotivepower.com/logging-arch-redding-big-wheels</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X84fyx8-yiI/Vm-qnU6DFbI/AAAAAAAAAFo/7WABTwXBYWQ/s1600/P03760%2BOutdoor%2BMuseum%2BBlog013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X84fyx8-yiI/Vm-qnU6DFbI/AAAAAAAAAFo/7WABTwXBYWQ/s320/P03760%2BOutdoor%2BMuseum%2BBlog013.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MT-CEMwDxgI/Vm-u-j0nqRI/AAAAAAAAAG8/AvNpGcEVQUM/s1600/P03735%2BOutdoor%2BMuseum%2BBlog009.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="224" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MT-CEMwDxgI/Vm-u-j0nqRI/AAAAAAAAAG8/AvNpGcEVQUM/s320/P03735%2BOutdoor%2BMuseum%2BBlog009.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the Wood & Sheldon Rainbow Mill, McCloud? 1910</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MT-CEMwDxgI/Vm-u-j0nqRI/AAAAAAAAAG8/AvNpGcEVQUM/s1600/P03735%2BOutdoor%2BMuseum%2BBlog009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--_Hq_O9-FxU/Vm-sIvQ_7WI/AAAAAAAAAGA/2BJ84TdgXFs/s1600/IMG_1464.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AP9KU7Rx4T4/Vm-rSZFexsI/AAAAAAAAAF0/HRq6g_nXUS4/s1600/P03761%2BOutdoor%2BMuseum%2BBlog015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AP9KU7Rx4T4/Vm-rSZFexsI/AAAAAAAAAF0/HRq6g_nXUS4/s320/P03761%2BOutdoor%2BMuseum%2BBlog015.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Prior
to the 1870's, logging was performed by the grueling process of dragging logs
from the woods with bull teams. In 1875, Silas Overpak of Manistee, Michigan,
introduced a wheeled device from which logs could be suspended, making the work
of bulls or horses greatly easier in moving logs to mills or landings.
Overpak's Michigan Big Wheels won an award at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and
logging was changed forever.<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Michigan Big Wheels was produced with wooden wheels in heights of 9, 9-1/2 and
10 feet, and sold for $250 plus $50 shipping by rail. It was copied by as many
as 25 other manufacturers, and while popular for level or modestly sloped
terrain, it didn't work well on the steep forests of the west since it had no
brakes.<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>John
Webb, Sr., of Redding Iron Works in Redding, California, took Overpak's design
and came up with a means for using the logs themselves as a brake. Webb applied
a slip tongue instead of the standard fixed tongue, which was a vast
improvement. The slip tongue moved back and used a cam mechanism that raised
the logs 10 to 12 inches off the ground when the wheels were moving uphill or
on level ground, but moved forward when descending slopes, thus lowering the
logs which acted as a brake.</span><br />
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was born the Redding High Wheels, with wooden wheels up to 12 feet in diameter,
weighing in at 3600 pounds, and selling for $350. (The wheels built in the east
were called Big Wheels, while those produced in the west were referred to as
High Wheels.) The wheel track was 7-1/2 feet, and the tongue length was 30
feet.<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Redding High Wheels typically used two teams of horses on hills and with large
logs, but could get by with two horses on level ground or when pulling small
logs. Because of Webb's braking system, the Redding wheels could work on slopes
up to 20 percent, whereas the Overpak patent was limited to slopes on only 10
percent.<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Redding
Iron Works added a cast iron hub in 1915 which could be unbolted to permit the
easy replacement of broken spokes. In the late 1800's, Daniel Best created the
steam traction engine, which in subsequent years would often be used in place
of horses to pull the Redding High Wheels. The C. L Best Gas Traction Company
built the first track-layer in 1913, and merged with the Holt Tractor Company
in 1925 creating Caterpillar, Inc.<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>All
this activity changed the way the high wheels were used, but the end came into
view in 1927 when the Red River Lumber Company of Westwood, California,
experimented with an all-metal logging arch constructed of railroad rail and
utilizing Athey track-laying wheels. Although the Redding High Wheels was
produced until 1932, by 1930 almost all logging shows were using the new steel
logging arches.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Logging arch in the Siskiyou County Outdoor Museum Spotted the small blue logging arch in Montague, CA Dec. 2015, so they are still in use</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caption on photo back: "Considerably less clumsy than the Best Steam Traction engine was the reliable Perry Log Cart. Shortly after the McCloud Lumber Company took over from Friday George, the horses and wheels returned to various sections of the woods on the southern slopes of Mt. Shasta.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1914 or 1915, possibly in McCloud</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Wheels, check the links below:</span></div>
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<br />Siskiyou County Historical Society Outdoor Museumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17863040376718361030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038325721319966495.post-4005107663828060432015-10-14T21:09:00.003-07:002015-10-14T22:18:02.268-07:00The Callahan Catholic Church<style>
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In
the early 1850’s there were no churches in the Callahan-Sawyers Bar area, so
the good fathers or “traveling missionaries” as they were called, came into the
area to perform their necessary services to the outlying areas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two such missionaries were Father
Thomas Cody and Father James Cassian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They would make the long and sometimes hazardous journey by mule over
Etna Mountain and stop for a rest at the Mathias Callahan ranch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was here that the first Catholic
mass in Callahan was offered.<br />
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this same time a young girl, along with her family, came to the area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miss Mary Lowe, being a very religious
young lady, saw the need for a church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She went around to all the miners and collected enough money from them
to build a church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also
managed to persuade Mr. Masterson to donate the lumber and Mr. Michael Fay to
haul it to the site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
1858 the Callahan Catholic Church was completed and the first mass was offered
by Father Croke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On July 4<sup>th</sup>
of that year, Father Florian Schwenninger performed the first baptism, and on
February 13, 1866, Miss Lowe became Mrs. John McBride and moved to the McBride
Ranch near Etna.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a farewell
celebration to his ministry in Siskiyou County, Father O’Kane had a great high
mass on December 25, 1873, in the Little Mission Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a rather flamboyant character
and his mass was not soon forgotten by the local townfolk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When there wasn’t enough money in the
collection, the priest would let the people know it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One time after the collection was taken up, the priest said,
“What? No gold?!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man held up
his hand, “I put some gold in there, Father.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Pat, where’s the gold?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pat seemed to shrink right down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He got to searching his pocket and came up with two and a
half pieces of gold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said,
“Jesus, Father, she must have slipped through me fingers.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Until
1821 Etna, Callahan and Sawyers Bar were included in the Yreka Parish and were
on the “visit” list of the traveling missionaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In April of that year Father O’Sullivan became the first
pastor of Fort Jones and continued to offer mass to the smaller
communities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, as the
trails turned into roads and travel became easier, people began to go to Fort
Jones for regular mass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only on
special occasions did people return to the little mission in Callahan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Priests from Yreka said the masses in
Callahan until 1921 when Fort Jones was made a parish and then priests from
Fort Jones took over saying the masses for the faithful.</span></div>
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1952 the Eschscholtzia Parlor 112 (Etna) of the Native Daughters of the Golden
West erected a marker in front of the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stone used to make the marker was brought from the south
fork of the Scott River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
marker says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Church of Saints John &
Paul, Callahan, Siskiyou </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Co. California, erected about 1858.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Father James Croke, a missionary priest
held first services here. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First
Catholic Church in Scott Valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dedicated by Eschscholtzia Parlor, No. 112 N.D.G.W. 1952.”</i></span><br />
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last mass at the Callahan Catholic Church was celebrated in 1971 by Father
Anthony Gurnell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1974 the
church building was put up for bid and was sold to Steve Farrington who had
plans to tear it down.</span></div>
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little church building in the Outdoor Museum is a replica of the original<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Callahan Catholic Church, also known as
Saints John and Paul Catholic Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The altar, railing, window frames, doors and main ceiling beams are the
only original parts of the church remaining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These materials were donated by Stephen Farrington to the
Historical Society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Knights of
Columbus, Siskiyou Council 2454, erected the church here in 1979.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is about 2/3 the size of the
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Henry and Henrietta Davis in front of cabin, 1860's</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
cabin was constructed in 1856 and occupied until 1870, when a larger farmhouse
was constructed by Henry Levi Davis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In 1852 Henry came across the plains from Ohio to California in search
of gold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By 1853 his attentions
shifted to ranching and he filed on a homestead in Little Shasta Valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ranch is still in the family today
(as of 2015).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This cabin is
constructed of pine that was shaped with an adze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The corners are constructed using the half-dovetail notch
for strength and for shedding water.</span></div>
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married a neighbor, Henrietta Deter, in August of 1861.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were to have their first four
children born while living in the cabin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After moving into the ranch house, three more children were born to the
couple.</span></div>
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side note:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in later years the
cabin was used for storage in the room to the right of the door and the room to
the left was used as a bunk house for men hired to help on the ranch during the
haying season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was used for
this purpose until it was donated to the Historical Society by Orlo and
Charlotte Davis in 1975.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a
Point of Interest, Reg. # SIS-002.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A peek inside the cabin at the Outdoor Museum</td></tr>
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notes submitted by Betty Davis Carrier and Helen William Easton</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Henry
Levi Davis, born in Tiffin, Ohio in 1832, came to California across country in
1852, arriving in Yreka in August of that year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After trying his hand at mining in the Humbug area and doing
carpenter work in Yreka, he decided that farming in Little Shasta Valley was to
his advantage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later in his life
he often told his grandchildren about his first crop of grain. He said it
wasn’t doing very well because there were so many grasshoppers that year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One day he discovered the grain field
had been set afire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon
investigating, he found a family of Indians out in the burned field picking up
the roasted grasshoppers for food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because the grain crop was such a poor one, and because he was friendly
with the Indians, he did nothing about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In 1854 Jesse F. Davis, Henry’s brother, arrived in Yreka; together they
homesteaded 280 acres in sections 4, 5 and 8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had a temporary cabin by the spring near the present
Williams Ranch, farming off and on until 1856, when Henry built the cabin at the
present ranch site and moved there permanently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesse later built a cabin by Davis Gulch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing remains of that cabin, but
every year to this day, hop vines return to remind us of an earlier
habitation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1860 Henry returned
to Ohio to purchase horses and stock for his ranch, returning the same year
with his friend, Edward Coonrod, who helped drive the livestock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trip was very difficult because
forage was scarce and the Indian tribes were more hostile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On
August 29, 1861 Henry married Henrietta Deter, daughter of David Deter, born in
Wayne County, Ohio, December 6, 1843.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They were married in the parlor of the Yreka Union Hotel in Yreka by
Judge A. M. Rosborough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henrietta
crossed the plains in 1860 with her father and three brothers, settling on
David’s ranch located a mile to the west of the Davis Ranch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henry and Henrietta settled into the
log cabin that is now located in the Siskiyou County Historical Society’s
Outdoor Museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their first four
children were born in this cabin: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mary Jane (Davis) -b. Feb. 4, 1863, d. 1915; Hattie
(Williams) - b. June 6, 1865, d. 1939; Emma (Kennedy) -b. Oct. 17, 1867, d.
1953; Nettie (Davis) - b. Oct. 7, 1869, d. Oct. 24, 1870.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In early 1872 the family moved into the
present ranch house, where three more children were born: Isaac Shriver Davis -
b. April 17, 1872, d. 1950; Henry Levi Davis, Jr. - b. Sept. 14, 1874, d. 1908;
Dr. Fred Jay Davis - b. June 16, 1883, d. 1965.</span></div>
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first raised sheep on his ranch, then in the 1880’s he purchased a purebred
herd of eight Holstein cows and one bull shipped from the east to Ashland,
Oregon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cow and Cabin on Davis Ranch, 1930's</td></tr>
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</span>They were driven over the
Siskiyou Mountains on foot, requiring several days of slow travel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this time he also raised horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through the years Henry acquired more
neighboring land and two mountain ranches on Ball Mountain – First Creek and
Horsethief Meadows, making cattle ranching the main pursuit of the ranch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Besides
being a good farmer, Henry Live Davis was an influential citizen of Little
Shasta, Montague and the community, and was a very good businessman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was interested in the development of
the new town of Montague, resulting in acquiring or having built, a number of
properties there, including the Mitchell and Opera Saloons and the Montague
Hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was one of the first
presidents of the Montague Bank, and later a bank director.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Henry
Levi, Jr., remained on the ranch to run it with his father after Isaac had
married and moved to Butte Valley, and then to Merrill, Oregon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tragically Henry Jr. died of
appendicitis in1908 at the age of 34 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henry Sr. stayed at the ranch until 1911 when he retired to
Montague, passing on in 1915.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
few years prior to his death, Henry Sr. was ill and needed medical treatment.
Henrietta accompanied her husband on the train from Montague to San Francisco,
where he was admitted to the hospital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This hospital used coal oil lamps for some light, but then attached
candles to each wooden headboard of the patients’ beds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One night while Henry was lying in his
hospital bed, the candle caught his wooden bed afire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henrietta started to scream, “Fire!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, Henry, being the very modest
and proper man that he always was, firmly told her, “I will not get out of this
bed until someone brings me my pants!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As the story goes, he stayed there with his bed burning while Henrietta
frantically got some pants for him to put on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After his recovery, they returned to their home in Montague
for a time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
1906, Henry became ill a second time, and he again traveled to San Francisco
and was put into the hospital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
was a patient in that hospital when the great earthquake of 1906 hit San
Francisco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole city was a
havoc of destruction, confusion and fire for days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henry and the other patients were moved to the Golden Gate
Park, where they were laid out on the grass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While he was there he watched the city burn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Between
1911 and 1915 the ranch was leased by two grandsons, Ernest and Allen Williams,
sons of Hattie Davis Williams, but since it was the wish of Henry that the
Davis name remain on the ranch, the eldest son, Isaac, took over the ranch in
1916.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaac had married Aldee
Coonrod, daughter of Edward and Eliza on November 24, 1897.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They homesteaded in Sams Valley near
Dorris, California, and then established a ranch in Merrill, Oregon in
1899.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their eldest child,
Henrietta, was born in Sams Valley in 1898.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their second child, Edward Orlo (aka Orlo)was born at home
in Merrill on February 25, 1900, and Anna was born in 1905.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1916 Isaac and family moved back to
the home ranch, where another son, Henry, was born November 13, 1916.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Orlo, 16 years old when the move was
made, was in charge of getting the livestock to the home ranch from Merrill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaac and Orlo increased the tillable,
irrigated acreage of the ranch in 1920 by purchasing part of the neighboring
John Kegg ranch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1929 Orlo
married Charlotte Osteriech, daughter of Emil and Ida<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Osteriech of Doty, Washington.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had a daughter, Betty Joan, born December 18,
1932.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Orlo did all the farming and
ranching at that time as Isaac had had a back injury that incapacitated him in
the 1920’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1950 Isaac passed
away and Orlo, Charlotte and Aldee continued a partnership until 1970 when
Aldee passed away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Orlo was the
sole owner until he felt he wanted to retire, selling the ranch to his
daughter, Betty Davis Carrier and her husband, Jim Carrier (b. in Oil City,
Pennsylvania, May 26, 1929).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
were married November 3, 1962.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jim
pursued a career as a forester for the U. S. Forest Service for 27 hears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Orlo
Davis passed away in 1990 at the age of 90.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He spent 74 years on the Davis Ranch improving production of
his cow-calf operation, running 250 head of top quality animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was named Siskiyou Cattleman of the
Year in 1971.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He semi-retired at
the age of 78, but continued an active interest in the ranch until his death on
August 3, 1990.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jim
and Betty Carrier and sons John, (b. Feb. 27, 1967) and Mark (b. December 28,
1968) moved back to the ranch in June of 1983.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They totally remodeled the original ranch house that was
built in 1871-72.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jim was working for
the U.S. F.S. on the Klamath National Forest at the time, and gradually started
a small herd of cows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He retired
from the Forest Service at the end of 1986, and continued to raise cows and hay
until 1994 when he decided to retire from ranching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Carriers have now leased the acreage to the Brice Martin
family, neighboring ranchers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
Orlo died in 1990, Charlotte remained on the ranch until 1992, when she moved to
Yreka to be closer to her social activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was contented to spend her days in Yreka until early
2002, when she was no longer able to care for herself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She spent her last 10 months in the
Grenada Inn, passing away on January 14, 2003.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jim and Betty continue to live on the ranch and enjoy their
retirement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boys plan to
return someday when their careers slow down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Selections
From the 1956<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>“Siskiyou Pioneer,”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> story by Karl V. and David C. Denny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>Pioneer Entrepreneur of Scott Valley</u>,
</i>and the 1991 “Siskiyou Pioneer,”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
story by Jim Denny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>The Story
of Denny Bar Company in Gazelle.</u></i></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Denny Bar Store building in Gazelle in 2015</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Albert
Hendricks Denny (A. H.) was born in New Providence, New Jersey in 1835.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Times were hard, and in an effort to
improve their lot the family moved to Wisconsin in 1843 when A. H. Denny was
eight years old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Albert
and his older brother, Edgar, wanted to go to California for gold, so to make
it possible, their mother sold the family silverware to finance their
trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this money they bought
a yoke of oxen, one milk-cow, a light spring wagon, provisions and a gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only $1.50 was left over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>They
left in May 1852, from Waukesha County Wisconsin with another family, all bound
for California.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This method of
traveling with oxen was soon too slow for the Dennys, so they traded their oxen
and cow for horses and moved along faster in the part of the trip which seemed
safe, and when it was unsafe they joined up with oxen trains again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
the boys arrived at Salt Lake City, they were broke and out of food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Mormons were haying, so they worked
for them at $1.50 per day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
traded their wagon for a pack animal and went on horseback from there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon their arrival at the Humboldt
River in Nevada they saw an outfit from Scott Valley, California by the name of
Hurd and Lytle who were picking up worn out cattle and horses from the
emigrants, resting them up and taking them to Scott Valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boys joined Hurd and Lytle on the trip to Scott Valley by
driving the herd and standing guard two hours at night.</span></div>
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reaching Rushing Springs in Modoc County, the company fell in with Captain Ben
Wright who took them through the Modoc country, arriving in Yreka October 28,
1852, just six months after leaving their home in Wisconsin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>With
winter coming the boys were advised to go to Deadwood to mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They went there with no tools, not
knowing how to mine, and with winter coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It looked tough, however, William Davidson of
Fort Jones had a store and butcher shop in Deadwood and sold them beef on
credit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
the spring of 1853 the boys came down to Fort Jones and worked on the Davidson
Ranch to pay their meat bill by making nails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the fall they had mined or earned enough money to buy
enough flour to last through the winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Denny boys mined for three years, then Albert bought a few cows and began to
sell milk to miners on the South Fork of the Scot River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Around 1860, Albert and Edgar Denny
bought a ranch in Noyes Valley where they farmed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They would load up hay and the next morning start with four
horses hitched to their hay wagon before daylight, come down six miles to the
crossing of Scott River going to Trinity County, go up from Scott Mountain six
miles, and unload the hay on the mountain top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hay was for oxen used to haul a sled to keep the road
open in the winter for the California-Oregon Stage Line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
1857 the boys bought a ranch on Wildcat Creek, and in 1858 they brought their
parents (Amasa and Sally), sister Jennie and brothers Tom and Joe out to the
Scott Valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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the older boys were farming, the rest of the family had gone into business in
Callahan’s Ranch, owning the Callahan’s Ranch Hotel from about 1863 to
1873.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Albert Denny came into the
mercantile business around 1866 staying with it until his death in 1907.</span></div>
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Brothers Stores were originally run by the three brothers – Tom, Joe and
Albert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stores were in South Fork
and Callahan’s, with Albert running the South Fork store and Tom and Joe
running the Callahan’s branch.</span></div>
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interest to note – A. H. Denny qualified as a Justice of the Peace in 1873, the
same year that he moved to Callahan’s Ranch and took over that store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also was the agent for Wells Fargo.</span></div>
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Bar was a boy of sixteen when Albert Denny put him to work in his Callahan’s
Ranch store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He taught him the
mercantile business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
combination of A. H. Denny as head of the company and Abe Bar as general
manager was never changed until Albert’s death in 1907.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under this set-up the Denny Bar Company
formed the first chain store in northern California, with nine branches at
various times – at Callahan’s, Etna, Fort Jones, Greenview, New River, Gazelle,
Yreka, Montague and Cecilville.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11.0pt;">that the forwarding of all of the freight
business to their other stores was handled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the very heavy winter of 1889-90 the railroad was
blockaded for several weeks and the manager of their Gazelle store raised the
prices of everything from flour to sugar and other necessities, which riled the
people around Gazelle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A. H. Denny
heard of this, came to Gazelle, had him put the prices down and refunded to
everyone he could locate who had bought at the inflated prices, which made good
feeling again.</span></div>
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of the Denny Bar Store buildings are still standing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Gazelle Denny Bar store stands in the little town of
Gazelle along the old Stage Road, the store in Etna that most recently held a drug store, and one in the town of Callahan (formerly
Callahan’s Ranch).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is made of green
granite from a local quarry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Board of Directors of the Denny Bar Company decided in 1928 they could no
longer make a profit out of their stores because of mail order competition, so
they decided to liquidate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
last of the Denny Bar stores in Gazelle was put up for sale, but there were no
takers at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After several
rounds of negotiations the buildings and contents were finally sold in
1936.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The building continued to
function as a store until November 1972.</span></div>
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old style general merchandise store that had worked so well in the development
of the west was disappearing from the scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A safe from the Denny Bar Store was donated to the Siskiyou
County Historical Society by Jim Carter and his sister Jeannie Reid, and it
resides in the Denny Bar Store building in the Siskiyou County Historical
Society’s Outdoor Museum.</span></div>
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has been written about the Denny Bar Company and its several incarnations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This information can be found in the
Siskiyou County Historical Society’s research library housed in the Siskiyou
County Museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Information can
also be found at the Genealogy Society of Siskiyou County, the public library
and Yreka Preservation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><u><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Spring School Building</span></u></span></h2>
The Spring School building was in use from 1890-1949 and was located 13 miles southwest of Dorris on the Sam's Neck Road at the foot of School House Hill. In 1899 Mary M. McCraig was the teacher, and school was attended for six months by ten pupils. The school house was donated by the Butte Valley Unified School District and brought to the Outdoor Museum in 1977. It is a typical example of a one-room school house that once dominated the country.<br />
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The following information and black/white photos are from the Siskiyou County School History page linked from the website of the Siskiyou County Office of Education (go to "Departments" and then to the "Instructional Media Center" page). Information about other schools and districts mentioned in the article below can be found on the Siskiyou County School History webpage cited above. The photo in color shows the school as it sits in the Outdoor Museum. Visitors can enter the school to see how the interior might have looked when the school was being used.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spring School as it is seen in the Outdoor Museum. The book cited above, "History of Schools in Siskiyou County," was researched and written by Stan Balfrey in 1974. Copies of the book can be found in the Siskiyou County Historical Society's Research Library currently housed in the Siskiyou County Museum building in Yreka, California.</td></tr>
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