History · Mineral

Mineral’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold just one old photo of Mineral. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

1old images & papers
1historic places
1need a date
Lassen Park Road · Library of Congress

The story

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The community was named for mineral springs near the original town site. A post office at Mineral was established in 1894.

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By decade

Mineral, decade by decade

Before
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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1 item
National Register of Historic Places

1 historic place in Mineral

1 place in Mineral is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

#254
In Californiaby listings · most towns there have none
1place listed1 building
0National Historic LandmarksNone here yet
1historic building protectedcounting each building in a district
1978first listedPark Headquarters, Lassen Volcanic National Park

Where they are

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Buildings

Architectural styles

From each listing’s National Archives record
Rustic1

When they were listed

The Register began in 1966.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places (05/22/2026) · styles from the National Archives catalog · photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Lassen Park Road and it appears here side by side.

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Stories next door

nearby towns’ history

From Wikimedia Commons (4), the Library of Congress (1) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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