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The Shasta College Museum
and Research Center was initiated by a group of interested faculty in 1968.
In 1972-73 a museum building was erected on campus. This building is a
replica of the adobe house of Pierson B. Reading, Shasta County's first
known permanent white settler. The museum property is surrounded by an
outside display area featuring aspects of northern California history. Many
people over the years have put their trust, support, and energy into the
museum, in addition to making many valuable donations. As a result, the
museum has grown into what it is today, with artifacts from many facets of
the history of northern California, particular Shasta, Tehama, and Trinity
counties, the area served by this joint community college district.
The stated purposes of the museum are:
1. To provide for a
depository for materials significant to the history of our area, especially
those of an archival nature.
2. To operate as a focal point for research about this area by Shasta
College students and by persons outside the college.
3. To encourage interest in the past and present of northern California.
The museum is open to the
public from 10:00am to 2:00pm on Tuesday's, Wednesday's, and Thursday's, or
by appointment.
Call the museum at 225-4754, or email the curator Dottie Smith at
dsmith@shastacollege.edu.
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