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Finely detailed map of the Castle Crag area, along a stretch of the Sacramento River in Shasta County.
Fascinating map of the Castle Crag area, providing a snapshot of the area in the final decade of the 19th Century. The map shows the area was becoming a tourist mecca, serviced by the California & Oregon Railroad and the arrival of electricity and telephone services, as illustrated on the map. This is also the period in which the logging and mining industries were very active in the region.
Castle Crag is the area which is not Castle Crags State Park, a dramatic and well-known rock formation in Northern California. Elevations range from 2,000 feet along the Sacramento River near the base of the crags, to over 6,500 feet at the summit of the tallest crag.
In 1892, the Pacific Improvement Company built Castle Crag Tavern, the largest summer hotel ever built in Shasta County. Its first manager was George Schoenwald, who would later manage the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey. The Hotel became quite famous and tourism grew steadily until the Hotel burned in 1900. Thereafter, it was never rebuilt, although a number of log cabins were erected in the same spot and the place was operated as a summer camp until 1930.
The map locates the Tavern, along with the Castle Crag depot and the residence of C.F. Crocker at the center of the map, along with another structure listed as G. Crocker. A number of trails, bridges, dams and pipe lines are shown, along with several mills on the Sacramento River and the Castella House (now the small town of Castella) and other other unnamed structures.
The two yellow lines running from the top center of the map locate the "P T & T Line" (Pacific Telephone & Telegraph) and the "Siskiyou P & L Co" (Siskiyou Power & Lighting Company) lines.
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