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By 1855 the Horsetown had on the one road through town, Shasta-Horsetown-Igo road:
- Two hotels: Union Hotel and Spencer Hotel
- Union and Spencer's concert hall
- A. T. Corbus & Co. general Store
- Wm. Weil & Co. general mercantile store
- Catholic church
- US Post Office operated from 1852 to 1876
- Wells Fargo Express offices and telegraph office[1]
- Three butcher shops
- Many restaurants
- Many boarding houses, most famous Coughlin house
- Two blacksmith shops
- F. B. Chandler Horsetown & Shasta Express to Middletown starting in 1858[2]
- Masonic Lodge, Clinton Lodge # 119 starting in 1857[3]
- Ten-pin bowling alley
- Fourteen salons, most famous was Duffy's Exchange
- James Hart's newspaper, the Northern Argus ran from 1860 to 1863
- A granite quarry
- Many homes, noted were E. M. Dixon, Boyds, C. H. Copper and Gleason house
- Some Mines near town:Dixon and Cooper Placer Mine, Horse Town Placer Mine, Squaw Flat Mines, James Walton Placer Mine, Texas Springs mines, Hope Consolidated Placer mines, Happy Thought Mine, Hollister and Evans Mines, Winchester Placer Mine, Jewel Mine and Quary, Dr. Roche Mine, Price Mine, and Larkin Mine.
References
edit- ^ "Telegraph line opened". The Sacramento Bee. Sacramento, California. April 17, 1858. p. 2. "Marysville, April 17th, 2 P.M., The Northern Telegraph Line just completed to Shasta. Offices now open to Oroville, Tehama, Red Bluffs and Shasta. Chico and Horsetown will be open Monday."
- ^ "Horsetown & Shasta Expres westerncoversociety.org" (PDF).
- ^ "Historic Igo Inn Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.