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Reading's Bar is a historical site in Redding, California in Shasta County.Reading's Bar is a California Historical Landmark No. 32 listed on August 1, 1932. [1] Reading's Bar was named after Major Pierson Barton Reading, who discovered gold on the Clear Creek bar in May 1848, starting a California Gold Rush in the surrounding area.
Horsetown was a major historical mining town on the Clear Creek in Reading, California in Shasta County. The town was founded as a tent mining town in 1851 after Major Pierson Barton Reading found gold just east of where the town was founded. Reading's gold find site is called Reading's Bar after the sandbar on Clear Creek.
Iron Mountain Mine, also known as the Richmond Mine at Iron Mountain, is a mine near Redding in Northern California, US.Geologically classified as a "massive sulfide ore deposit", the site was mined for iron, silver, gold, copper, zinc, quartz, and pyrite intermittently from the 1860s until 1963.
The area became known as a source for gold. Nearby Redding, CA's newspaper The Record Searchlight reports miners averaged $50 in gold per day ($2,039.41 in 2024 dollars), and in 1851 a 56-ounce gold nugget was found. The first woman arrived in town in 1852, and by 1855 about 1,000 gold miners lived in Whiskeytown.
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The Saddle Ridge Hoard is the name given to a hoard of 1,427 gold coins unearthed in the western half of the Shasta Cascade region, of Northern California in 2013. The face value of the coins totaled $27,980, but was assessed to be worth $10 million.
Redding is the county seat of Shasta County, California, and the economic and cultural capital of the Shasta Cascade region of Northern California. Redding lies along the Sacramento River , 162 miles (261 km) north of Sacramento , and 120 miles (190 km) south of California's northern border with Oregon .
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