Happy Anniversary! Susanville Elks Lodge Turns 100 Years Old Today!
In celebration of the Susanville Elks Lodge's 100th anniversary we are re-running this story from the Lassen Historical Society.
By Susan Couso
The beautiful Victorian-style building at Susanville's west end has had a very interesting life. The land was originally owned by Isaac Roop, and went...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Medford Roop Arnold
by Susan Couso
Medford Roop Arnold is one of our Lassen County natives who was well-known and well-liked and well-respected for his entire life. Now, very few people seem to know who he was.
He was born January 25th, 1885 in Susanville. His parents were...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Sierra Valley Railroad
by Susan Couso
Winding through the hills from Graeagle to Plumas Junction, the Sierra Valley Railroad had a rough beginning and a rough ending. In the late 1880’s a railroad through the area was a dream and by the early part of the 20th Century...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Daniel Stark
by Susan Couso
Daniel Rice Stark had been born in Indiana on the third of July in 1830 and grew up in a large family. He had married his sweetheart, Rebecca, in 1856 in Michigan.
The Stark family moved around, trying to find a good life,...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Dangerous Lake Almanor
by Susan Couso
The project to build Lake Almanor brought electricity to thousands of people. In the early years of the 20th Century efforts began to build Canyon Dam at the south end of the beautiful valley, called Big Meadows, which had become the home...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Gladys Spencer
by Susan Couso
Gladys Matilda Spencer is another one of those who prove that important people do come from Lassen County. Gladys was born in Susanville on March 27, 1872. Her father, Ephraim Van Buren 'Eff' Spencer, was Lassen County's first District Attorney, and a...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: The Man-Made Eruption of Mt. Lassen
by Susan Couso
Around 600,000 years ago, the 11,000-foot-tall ancient volcano named Mt. Tehama pushed its way skyward. It rumbled and spewed and lorded over the entire area until it blew itself up in a mighty explosion about 350,000 years ago and collapsed into the...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Lassen Inventors
by Susan Couso
Perhaps it’s because Lassen County has been in the middle of nowhere for many years, or perhaps it’s because people who do live here are very clever, but Lassen County has produced some very remarkable inventions.
Out of a need for something...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Isaiah Eli Hallet
by Susan Couso
Isaiah Eli ‘Boy’ Hallet was certainly an interesting individual. He was born in March 1846, in Marion County, Ohio, and came out west to Honey Lake Valley in 1862 with his parents. His father, Jesse Isaac and his mother Elizabeth Hallett, eventually...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Chief Winnemucca
by Susan Couso
The name ‘Winnemucca’ has appeared throughout the western U. S. for many years now. Legends and historical facts seem to blur together to create a man, Chief Winnemucca, who could probably not live up to the many tales surrounding his life.
His...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Earthquake!
by Susan Couso
For over four billion years Earth has contorted and skewed itself into what it is today. The inner forces have exploded through the outer layer and created the topography that we enjoy.
The tectonic plates slide along faults and slowly create mountains...
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