History · Mount Shasta
A history of Mount Shasta,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Mount Shasta from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
6old images & papers
0recent photos
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The site of the present-day city of Mount Shasta was within the range of the Okwanuchu tribe of Native Americans.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items below1860Shasta Valley from Long Gulch MountainLOC
1890s2 items · Mt. Shasta (14440 ft.) north over Str…Commons
1900s3 items · Town of Sisson at the foot of Mount S…Commons
1910–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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Finish Mount Shasta’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewShasta Valley from Long Gulch Mou…, 1860: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10By decade
Mount Shasta, decade by decade
1890s2 items
1900s3 items
1910s–
1990s
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your albumThen & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Shasta Valley from Long Gulch Mountain (1860) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.