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SELECTION >> Museums |
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Dunsmuir Historical Museum The museum has a collection of early railroad exhibits.
Fort Crook Museum (Open May to November) The museum features artifacts of the area's early Native Americans and settlers. The highlights include six completely furnished rooms of antique furniture, a blacksmith's shop, the old Fall River jail, a room containing early farm implements, and a fine collection of Indian artifacts.
Fort Jones Museum The museum houses Native American and Pioneer artifacts from the 19th century.
Heritage Junction of McCloud Historic Center The museum features logging industry memorabilia, early fire fighting equipment, a replica of an old church, a Corliss engine from the 1903 McCloud Steam Log Mill, and clothing and accessories from the middle 1800's to early 1900's.
J.J. "Jake" Jackson Memorial Museum -- Open year-round The Trinity County Historical Park focuses on the gold rush days and on pioneer life. The grounds contain a reconstructed stamp mill, a miner's cabin, and a blacksmith shop.
Kelly/Griggs House Museum (Open year-round, Thursday - Sunday) The renovated Victorian features authentic antique furnishings and paintings that span more than a century. The museum also features the "Ishi Room" an exhibit of "the last wild Indian," and the "Pioneer Room" that houses a priceless collection of early possessions and photographs from Tehama County's past.
Klamath National Forest Interpretive Museum
Living Memorial Sculpture Garden Vietnam War Veteran Sculpture Garden. Ten Metal sculptures representing the war. 58, 000 seedlings planted in honor of those who died.
Scott Museum of Trinity Center (May 15th - September 15th) Exhibits include Native American artifacts; authentic models of transportation: a buggy, covered wagon and stage coach.
Siskiyou County Museum Restored buildings are arranged to resemble a village in the 19th century.
Shasta Historical Society
Sisson Museum The Museum highlights the history of Mt. Shasta, artifacts of Native Americans, and the geology of Mt. Shasta.
Turtle Bay Exploration
Park
Spanning the Sacramento River and
connected by the Sundial Bridge, Turtle
Little
Mt. Hoffman Lookout -- permit required From a height of 7,309 feet, Little Mt. Hoffman offers a spectacular view of Mt. Shasta, Mt. Lassen, and Mt. McLoughlin.
Foster's
Cabin Historical and physical evidence indicates that there have been as many as three structures in Parker Meadows, two of them constructed by, or in cooperation with, the Foster family.
Hodges
Cabin Hodges Cabin is located about four miles up the North Fork of Coffee Creek Trail inside the Trinity Alps Wilderness. The historic site is home to the two story cabin, a horse barn and corral, a blacksmith shop, a generator shed and Pelton wheel, a cement swimming pool and a treehousebuilt. All the buildings were in 1923 by Walter Leander Hodges.
Bowerman Barn Built in 1878 by Jacob Bowerman, the barn stands today as an outstanding example of a late 19th century hand-crafted structure. It is listed with the National Register of Historic Places.
Shasta
State Historical Park The historic site is made up of what remains from an old mining town. Its Courthouse Museum features memorabilia from the early days of gold mining. Other buildings include a courtroom, jail, and gallows.
Weaverville Drug Store It is California's oldest pharmacy still in operation. The historic site exhibits antique equipment and devices.
Weaverville
Joss House State Historic Park "The Temple of the Forest Beneath the Clouds" is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California. The historic site exhibits art objects, pictures, mining tools, and weapons used in the 1854 Tong War. The park is a fascinating look into the role that the Chinese immigrants played in early California history. For more Information call (530) 623-5284
William B. Ide
Adobe State Historic Park (Open year-round)
Weed Historic Lumber Town Museum The museum features timber industry tools, jail cells, and historical pictures of Weed.
A Brief History of the Modoc
War
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