Old Shasta is located 6 miles west of Redding on Highway 299. Within minutes of Lake Shasta, Whiskytown Lake, Lassen Peak and the Sacramento River, Old Shasta is a great place to live in the north state. Old Shasta features historic properties and rural homes surrounded by low level foothills covered with evergreen trees and fantastic views of Mount Shasta, Lassen Peak, the Sacramento River and the Trinity Alps. If you are looking for property in the foothills near Redding, you will want to check out Old Shasta.

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Shasta Demographics

A bustling town of the 1850s through the 1880s, Shasta was for its time, the largest settlement in Shasta County, California and the surrounding area. Not to be confused with the current town of Mount Shasta, Shasta (sometimes referred to today as "Old Shasta") was an important commercial center and a major shipping point for mule trains and stagecoaches serving the mining towns and later settlements of northern California. The discovery of gold near Shasta in 1849 brought California Gold Rush-era Forty-Niners up the Siskiyou Trail in search of riches - most passed through Shasta, and continued to use it as base of operations. Situated about six miles west of Redding, California along Highway 299, Shasta was once home to some 3500 residents and a thriving commercial district. However, in the mid-1880s, the newly-constructed Central Pacific railroad bypassed Shasta, in favor of Redding and the town declined into "ghost town" status. The site of the town is now a California state historical park containing many of the original 1850s-era brick buildings, partially restored. The poet Joaquin Miller refers to Shasta in his 1870s novel, Life Amongst the Modocs, based on the experiences of Miller as a young man living in the area in the 1850s. In the novel (and in real life), Miller was briefly imprisoned in the jail at Shasta for horse-stealing. In the novel (and in real life), Miller escapes from the Shasta jail with the aid of his Native American wife. It is now a town of 750 people with the ruins of the gold mining town, a post office, a church, an elementary school, and a store.

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