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Reading's Bar
Major Pierson Barton Reading, California explorer and participant in the Bear Flag Revolt, discovered gold on this
bar in 1848. Soon afterwards he made a similar find on the Trinity River. News of these discoveries opened the entire
northern region of California to the Gold Rush of '49. By 1851 the town of Clear Creek Diggings had been settled near
the bar. Later renamed Horsetown, it was the commercial center for this mining area. Horsetown was destroyed by fire
in 1868.
California Registered Historic Landmark No. 32
First registered August 1, 1932. Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation
with the Shasta Historical Society, Darrell Moss Historical Fund and Trinitarianus Chapter 62, E Clampus Vitus,
May 16, 1998.
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