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by Susan Couso Ephraim Van Buren Spencer was one of those unique individuals who, when faced with a challenge, just found another way to achieve his goal. He came to…
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by Susan Couso Asa Merrill Fairfield is undoubtedly Lassen County’s most important historian. He lived and wrote at a time when many of the early pioneers were still alive to…
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by Susan Couso Visitors to Susanville’s Memorial Park are greeted with a WWI relic in the form of a 155MM 1917A1 artillery piece. This howitzer was part of a plan…
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by Susan Couso We have some fascinating people who came from Lassen County, and Frank Randolph Cady was one of them. Frank was born in Susanville in 1915, the son…
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by Susan Couso Devil’s Corral sounds like a bit of a scary place, and indeed it was for many. As early as the 1860’s, the name has deterred travelers and…
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by Susan Couso From the time Isaac Roop built his cabin, in 1854, the necessity for a water supply became evident. Roop traced Paiute Creek (then called Smith Creek) about…
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by Susan Couso One might wonder what an English military officer, who was born in 1584 and arrived on the Mayflower, has to do with Lassen County History. But there…
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by Susan Couso Rose was not what most people would consider a typical Victorian woman. Her grandparents were a French fur trader named Auguste Choteau, and Rosalie, the daughter of…
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