Lockhart Ferry

Shasta County · 0.3 mile west of Fall River Mills · location approximate

Established by Samuel Lockhart in 1856 as a link in the first wagon road from Yreka to Red Bluff. The Lockhart Ferry crossed below the confluence of the Fall and Pit Rivers near this spot. After a massacre in December 1856 the ferry was reestablished in 1857 below Fall River Falls.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.

Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)

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