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Upper Soda Springs is on the banks of the Sacramento River in Dunsmuir, California, USA. It consists of approximately ten acres (40,000 m²) of level ground on both sides of the River, the surrounding hillsides, and continues north along the eastern bank of the Sacramento River to the Dunsmuir City Park. The State of California and the City of Dunsmuir are creating a new park on this historic site. The Upper Soda Springs site contains a riparian ecosystem and includes its namesake mineral water spring. The site mirrors the history of the state and of the American West. A spring at the Sacramento River headwater The Sacramento River is the longest river in the state of California. ...
Dunsmuir is a city located in Siskiyou County, California. ...
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Riparian areas or zones are the areas of vegetation directly separating land from water and immediately adjacent land that is frequently inundated, or, in other words, the floodways of streams. ...
The American West (or The West), is an informal but well-recognized name for the region comprising the 17 or 13 (depending on historical time period and authority) of the most western states in the continental United States. ...
Before the California Gold Rush
Before the California Gold Rush, the site had no permanent inhabitants. The nearest inhabitants, members of the Okwanuchu tribe, used the site as a temporary campground during the annual salmon fishing season. Another nearby tribe, the Wintu, likely did not have regular habitation sites this far north along the Sacramento. Gold rush handbill The California Gold Rush was a period in American history marked by mass hysteria concerning a gold discovery in Northern California. ...
The Okwanuchu were one of a number of small Shastan speaking tribes in Northern California, who were closely related to the adjacent larger Shasta tribe. ...
The Wintu were Native Americans who lived in what is now Northern California. ...
The first European or American visitors in the area were likely hunters and trappers, including Hudson's Bay Company hunting and trapping parties headed by Michel Laframboise, coming down from the Pacific Northwest during the 1820's-30's. As early as 1834, pioneer horse and cattle drives along what was to become known as the Siskiyou Trail from Mexican-controlled California to settlements in Oregon stopped at Upper Soda Springs. In 1841, an overland party of the United States Exploring Expedition with cartographers and botanists entered the upper Sacramento River canyon, and recorded visits to mineral springs sites on the upper Sacramento River, including Upper Soda Springs. The Hudsons Bay Company (HBC) (TSX: HBC) is the oldest corporation in Canada (and North America) and is one of the oldest in the world still in existence. ...
Darker red states are always part of the Pacific Northwest. ...
The Siskiyou Trail stretched from Californias Central Valley to Oregons Willamette Valley; modern-day Interstate 5 follows this pioneer path. ...
The United States Exploring Expedition was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean (the Southern Seas) conducted by the United States Navy from 1838-1842. ...
During and after the Gold Rush The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848, brought the Forty-Niners to California in search of riches. During the next five years, these prospectors spread from the original Gold Country region of the Sierra Nevada throughout the state. Discovery of gold near Yreka, California in 1851 greatly increased the traffic between California's Central Valley and Yreka, and north into Oregon and Washington. Sutters Mill Sutters Mill was a sawmill owned by 19th century pioneer John Sutter. ...
Forty-niners were the participants of the California Gold Rush 1848 - 1854. ...
Gold Country (also Mother Lode Country) is a region of northeastern California famed for the mines and mineral deposits which so famously brought the 49ers west for the California Gold Rush. ...
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Yreka is the county seat of Siskiyou County, California. ...
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Packers with mule trains joined the prospectors heading north, following existing Native American foot trails through rugged mountains, including the Sacramento River canyon. A rustic wayside hostel for these travelers was the first permanent habitation on the site, established in the early 1850's. During this same time, a band of Wintu, fleeing the predation of the Forty-Niners on the Trinity River, crossed the mountains, and settled near the springs. Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ...
The Trinity River is the name of two rivers in the United States. ...
 In about 1855, a toll bridge crossing the Sacramento River was built on the site by pioneers Ross McCloud and Mary Campbell McCloud. During the next 30 years, the first stagecoach road between the Central Valley and Oregon passed through the site and a more substantial inn was developed, with a covered "springhouse" to allow the public to enjoy the "soda water" from the mineral springs. (On the far right in the image to right.) Notably, the name "Dolly Varden trout" was first given to a colorful local fish species by Elda McCloud Masson, the daughter of Ross and Mary McCloud. Engraving of the Upper Soda Springs Resort, circa 1870 File links The following pages link to this file: Upper Soda Springs Ross McCloud ...
Ross McCloud (April 16, 1819 – August 22, 1868) was a California pioneer and early settler in Northern California. ...
Trinomial name Salvelinus malma malma Walbaum, 1792 For the other subspecies, see Southern Dolly Varden. ...
The arrival of the Central Pacific railroad in 1886 heralded still further expansion of the inn. Now known as the Upper Soda Springs Resort, it was a destination for well-to-do Victorian Era travelers who would come to "take the waters" at the mineral springs. External link Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum Categories: Corporation stubs | Historical stubs | Defunct railroad companies of the United States | California railroads | Nevada railroads | Utah railroads | Historic civil engineering landmarks ...
Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian Era of Great Britain is considered the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ...
With the increasing popularity of the automobile in the 20th century, vacation tastes changed, and the Resort closed by 1920. The property was subdivided, and became private residences and businesses.
Modern era Beginning in 1995, through public and private efforts, riverside parcels of the historic Upper Soda Springs Resort were acquired and dedicated to park land. Sections of the site have been restored and further work is planned.
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