Historic Flume Trail At Castle Crags State Park
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- In this episode of Exploring Shasta County History, we will tour the remains of a historic water ditch and flume in the boundaries of the Castle Crags State Park, just 40 miles north of Redding, California. This water ditch and flume system dates to the 1890s and was constructed to channel water into the town site of Castella from Castle Creek and Indian Creek. Later on, miners utilized its water in the area for the extraction of gold at their mining claims. Some of these former sites along the present-day trail system have miner camp castoffs at their location to explore as well. This trail is an easy to moderate hike.
Castella was a railroad station which was first called Castle Rock due to the highest dome of the nearby crags. Yet that name was short-lived, and in 1890 the United States Post Office headquarters in Washington D.C., designated the site which we know as Castella today, as Leland. The town of Leland was named in honor of Leland Standford, an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and a member of the Republican Party. Standford served as the sixth governor of the state of California from 1862 to 1863. Standford owned a beautiful summer home at Lower Soda Springs in Shasta County, California.
In 1890 the name of the town of Leland was changed again to Castella about the time this historic flume was erected to serve the community. The town site included a railroad depot, grocery store, hotel, school and a United States Post Office for local residents to send and receive mail. The area was mined for gold and logged for lumber as Castella boasted a population of 600 people at one-time. The town site still remains today along Interstate-5 in the Sacramento River Canyon and its United States Post Office is still in service to the public. For my resources please visit the following link to Exploring Shasta County History, my website:
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This is amazing to see! Wow! I never knew this historic flume trail was there in Castle Crags. How cool this structure was utilized to deliver water to the residents there!
Very satisfied to see this great video! Nice episode it really showed more than I thought it would!
Thank, Jeremy! Glad to see Miss LaToya make an appearance on your channel after watching her on California Unearthed. Great history, here.
Great episode! Thank you 😊. Just an FYI those car fenders are from a Model T Ford. Keep up the good work! Much appreciated!! Marc
That looks old the ditch and flume! Wow 😮
Thanks, Jeremy! This was great to experience on film.
Nice job! thanks for walking in the poison oak, so I don't have to! all stay safe
Incredible! 😮
Good job, wish i could have joined you.
That would of been awesome! Different schedules at the time tho.
I guess you didn't hike up castle creek and see the castle crags petroglyphs on the granite boulders. I saw them long time ago. Not sure what culture did them. But I believe the experts said they weren't native American. You can find info on them on Google and I think youtube has a video. Thanks for the great video. I haven't been up those trails at the crags in a long time.
Cool.
Stockham fittings. That plastic pipe is not very old. Maybe a marijuana grower? Great video, thanks Jeremy. I'm glad you are documenting all this for future generations.
One way to better avoid the chance of encountering snakes is to stay ON the marked official trails...although I agree it is frustrating that the actual trail doesn't do a better job of following the old flume all along the way, given the name of the trail.
Yes, respect is key: "Take only photos, leave only footprints." And those old miners sure lacked respect, leaving their detritus all over the place!