From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Donald Landon and Landon Lookout
by Susan Couso
In 1910, a huge 3,000,000 acre fire devastated parts of Idaho, Washington and Montana. The U.S. Government responded to this disaster by assigning the problem to the newly-formed U.S. Forest Service who then began their work to defend the country from wildfires.
In...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Sacred Heart Church and the ‘Father of the Leprechauns’
From a story by Deborah Draper
Many years have passed since the little white church was built in 1894, by 2 or 3 families, near the river on Richmond Road, just south of Riverside Drive. Many also, are memories that followed when it was moved...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Lassen County Courthouses
By Susan Couso
In July of 1864, Lassen County was only three months old, but the necessity for a courthouse was evident. Isaac Roop donated a two-acre plot of land for the courthouse site, and in 1867, a two-story wooden courthouse was built. But by...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Old Zack Taylor
By Susan Couso
Zack Taylor was one of our area's more colorful characters. His name was actually Paschal Taylor, but for some reason or another, he was called 'Old Zack'. He was old... he was born back in Virginia in 1802, but that name, Zack,...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Kid Benoist
By Susan Couso
Malcolm Mac 'Kid' Benoist was born in Reno, Nevada in 1895, but by the time he was 25 years old he was the pride of Lassen County's pugilistic world. He was a road hostler for the railroad and lived in Westwood. Mac...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Roxie Peconom
By Susan Couso
In about 1854, a remarkable person was born near where Peter Lassen's Monument is today. Yo-on-na, as she was called, would lead a long, amazing life in Lassen County. But she is a lady of mystery.
Some sources say her father was named...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: The Lost Silver Ledge of Hardin City
By Susan Couso
The Black Rock Desert, with its fumaroles and bubbling springs of scalding water, is not a welcoming place. Vegetation is scarce, and water even scarcer. Most emigrants, traversing the route through the desert to the west, spent as little time here as...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: The California Conservation Center
By Susan Couso
As the 'Post-War Boom' spread throughout the country, many rural areas felt very little effect. The excitement was mainly centered around the cities. Agriculture and forest-based economies went along as usual for the most part. Of course, the post-war building boom did...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Dr. Robert Fulton Moody
By Susan Couso
Robert Fulton Moody was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1834. His father, David a sea captain, came to Susanville to live with him, but his mother, Susan died before coming west.
Dr. Moody was a physician, druggist, taxidermist, photographer, cobbler and inventor also,...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Happy Birthday Peter Lassen
By Susan Couso
Lassen County's namesake, Peter Lassen, only lived in the Honey Lake Valley for four years, yet his name has been used extensively throughout northern California.
He was born in Farum, Denmark on October 31st, 1800. Peter's father, Lars Nielsen (Lar's son - Larsen...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Susanville and the Spanish Flu
By Susan Couso
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide, about one-third of the planet’s population, and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including some 675,000 Americans. Many more probably died from...
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