Redding CA Real Estate

Shasta, referred to as Old Shasta, is an unincorporated community in Shasta County  A bustling town of the 1850s through the 1880s, Shasta was for its time, the largest settlement in Shasta County and the surrounding area and is often considered part of neighbor, Redding CA Real Estate. The town was an important major shipping point for mule trains and stagecoaches that served the mining towns and later the settlements of Northern California. When gold was discovered near Shasta in 1849, it brought California Gold Rush Forty-Niners up the Siskiyou Trail, passing through the Shasta area, and then many continued to use the town of Shasta it as base of operations.

The site of Old Shasta is now Shasta State Historic Park, containing the original 1850s-era brick buildings. Shasta is both a state park and a town of 750 people with the ruins of the gold mining town, a state park, and a post office, a church, an elementary school, the oldest Masonic lodge in California, and a store.

Six miles west of Redding a row of old, half-ruined, brick buildings reminds one that Shasta City, the lusty “Queen City” of California’s northern mining district, once stood on this site. These ruins and some of the nearby roads, cottages, and cemeteries are all silent but eloquent vestiges of the intense activity that was centered here during the California gold rush.There are roofless commericial buildings that were once crowded with merchandise, and alive with the human sounds of business, trade, and social activities.

The County Courthouse, was restored as it looked in 1861, that was when it was converted from commercial uses to become the Shasta County Courthouse. Today the building is filled with an unparalleled collection of historic California Artwork that make it the central figure of Shasta State Historic Park.

This but another of the wonder sites to visit while you are in the historic Redding/Shasta area of Northern California.