Celebrating 75 Years, a Look at Shasta County in 1938
From the Redding Record Searchlight:
“Shasta County was in the midst of the second of its big boom times. In the fall on 1938 thousands of men had poured into the northern end of the Sacramento Valley, setting up lean-tos and shanty towns on the outskirts of Redding, near the Diestelhorst Bridge and further north.
“Just as the hunt for gold brought scores of men north in the hopes of striking it rich, the prospect of finding work on the last of the Great Depression’s major reclamation projects marked the start of another economic boom for the area.”
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