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Shasta, CA - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Shasta  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Shasta Home page. The Shasta Home page provides as much information as possible on Shasta. Knowing Shasta’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Shasta’s Home page, you will also find Shasta’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Shasta has a population of 1639. 58.6% of Shasta’s inhabitants are Male, and 41.4 are female. 56.1% of Shasta is married and 85.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $351,008, and the average rent is $1,218. Household median income in Shasta is $64,135, and the individual median income is $25,625. Shasta’s Ethnic is the following: White(90.1%), Native(4.7%), Hispanic(4.3%), Asian(1.8%), Black(1.7%), Multiple(1.6%).


A bustling town of the 1850s through the 1880s, Shasta was for its time, the largest settlement in Shasta County and the surrounding area. Sometimes referred to today as "Old Shasta", the town was an important commercial center and a major shipping point for mule trains and stagecoaches serving the mining towns and later settlements of northern California.


The discovery of gold near Shasta in 1848 brought California Gold Rush-era Forty-Niners up the Siskiyou Trail in search of riches - most passed through Shasta, and continued to use it as base of operations. Those that stayed worked the placer gold diggings of nearby, short-lived camps like Horsetown, Buckeye, and Whiskeytown, California. Situated about six miles (10 km) west of Redding, California along Highway 299, Shasta was once home to some 3,500 residents, the county seat, and a thriving commercial district.


However, in 1873, the under construction Oregon-bound branch of the Central Pacific Railroad bypassed Shasta, in favor of Redding and the town began its decline into near "ghost town" status. In 1888, Shasta lost the county seat to Redding. By the twentieth century, and after several fires, a distinctive row of gold rush era buildings remained along its Main Street, which attracted preservationists and their efforts to save all the local stories and landscape, and the remaining first generation of 1850s brick and iron door architecture. The poet Joaquin Miller refers to Shasta in his 1870s novel, Life Amongst the Modocs, based on the experiences of Miller as a young man living in the area in the 1850s.


In this book, Miller describes his brief imprisonment in a Shasta jail for horse-stealing and subsequent escape with the aid of his Native American wife.


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