From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: The Camp Fire Cabin
by Susan Couso
Through the efforts of some civic minded people in our nation’s northeast, Camp Fire Girls was incorporated in 1912 to act as a sister organization for the Boy Scouts of America.
Camp Fire Girls was created to encourage girls to experience the outdoors...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Crime Spree of 1926
by Susan Couso
1926 was a busy year in Susanville. There were two huge wildfires which terrorized the surroundings and even crept into the town limits during June and July, scaring ‘the dickens’ out of everyone.
Then, in August, the California State American Legion Convention was...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: The Arrival of the Automobile
by Susan Couso
In 1903, when Clinton Walker arrived in the first automobile to venture into the ‘wilds’ of Lassen County, it made a huge impression. The modern world had reached northeastern California!
Soon, automobiles were everywhere. In Susanville, speed limits needed to be established to...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Hallelujah Junction
by Susan Couso
In 1932 Orville and Isola Stoy homesteaded 80 acres of barren, basically unusable land where the highway from Quincy meets the highway to Reno. As far back as the 1850’s the area had earned the name, ‘Hallelujah Junction’, as emigrants rejoiced at...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: A Very Scary Bus Ride
by Susan Couso
On Friday, November 16th, 1945, the weather was clear and cold, hovering near freezing in the morning and edging up to 44 degrees for the day’s high.
It was a perfect day to go swimming at Roosevelt Pool in Susanville. Roosevelt was...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Thomas Massey
by Susan Couso
In 1853 when Bavarian inventor, Philipp Moritz Fischer added pedals to the already popular bicycle it became a sensation in both the U.S. and in Europe.
Lassen County’s involvement in this new mode of transportation began in the late 1880’s as the area’s...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Photographer Peter Julian Thompson
by Susan Couso
In the 1800’s, photography was relatively expensive, and the cameras were difficult to operate. It took a skilled photographer to capture an image with just the right exposure and then process it with the correct amount of chemicals. It was an art.
In...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Balloon Invasion
by Susan Couso
Their forces and supplies were depleted, and by June of 1944, the Nazi army was in retreat. By the end of 1944, Germany’s success in the war was all but impossible. In early 1945, Germany was invaded by the Allied forces, and...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Lassen High’s Funderburgh Problem – Part Two
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by Susan Couso
Local judge, Ben Curler, recused himself from the case, and Judge C. A. Paulson was brought in from Weaverville to preside. Curler, while serving as Lassen County District Attorney,...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Lassen High’s Funderburgh Problem – Part One
by Susan Couso
In the 1930’s, Lassen High School was the center of a huge controversy which tore the school and the community into two battling armies, both bent on gaining control and ‘having their way’.
Most everyone is used to the idea that high...
From the Files of the Lassen Historical Society: Jesse ‘Owen’ Gifford
by Susan Couso
For a while there, Jesse ‘Owen’ Gifford seemed to have it all, but it turns out that he didn’t appreciate what he had.
Gifford was born in Georgia in 1895, and was raised by his mother, Mollie, and his stepfather, Alvin Adkins, in...
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