Siskiyou County Museums Brochure
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MUSEUMS OF SISKIYOU COUNTY CALIFORNIA Siskiyou County Museum Butte Valley Museum 910 Main Street, 500 Butte Street Yreka, Calif. 96097 Dorris, Calif. 96023 (530) 842-3836 (530) 397-2707 www.siskiyoucountyhistoricalsociety.org buttevalleymuseum.homestead.com Open: Year Round Open: Seasonal The People’s Center WWII Valor in the Pacifi c The Karuk Tribe National Monument 64236 Second Avenue 800 South Main Street Happy Camp, Calif. 96039 Tulelake, Calif. 96134 (530) 493-1600 Ext 2202 (530) 260-0537 Hilt ��� www.karuk.us/peoples center/peoples center.php Dorris www.nps.gov/labe Open: Year Round Tulelake Open: Year Round Klamath Hornbrook River Seiad �� ��� Valley Tulelake Museum Fort Jones Museum Happy Macdoel 11913 Main Street Hamburg of Local History Camp 800 South Main Street Fort Jones, Calif. 96032 Scott Bar �� � Tulelake, Calif. 96134 (530) 468-5568 Yreka Montague www. (530) 667-5312 Open: Memorial Day to Labor Day �� www.tbvfair.com Open: Year Round Fort Jones Tennant Etna Museum � Eschscholtzia Parlor No. 112 Klamath Basin NWR Native Daughters of the Golden West Etna Visitor Center 520 Main Street Weed 4009 Hill Road Somes Bar Etna, Calif. 96027 Sawyers Tulelake, Calif. 96134 (530) 467-5366 Bar Mt. Shasta (530) 667-2231 www.etnamuseum.org Forks Callahan www.fws.gov/klamathbasinrefuges/ of Salmon McCloud Open: June through August �� Open: Year Round Dunsmuir Weed Historic Cecilville Lava Beds Lumber Town Museum �� � 303 Gilman Avenue National Monument Weed, Calif. 96094 1 Indian Well Headquarters (530) 938-0550 Tulelake, Calif. 96134 www.snowcrest.net/whm (530) 667-8100 Open: Last week of May to 30 September www.nps.gov/labe Open: Year Round Sisson Museum Dunsmuir Railroad Depot Museum Heritage Junction of McCloud Montague Depot Museum 1 North Old Stage Road Pine Street and Sacramento Avenue 320 Main Street 230 South 11th Street Mount Shasta, Calif. 96067 Dunsmuir, Calif. 96025 McCloud, Calif. 96057 Montague, Calif. 96064 (530) 926-5508 (530) 235-0929 (530) 964-2604 (530) 459-3385 www.mountshastasissonmuseum.org www.dunsmuir.com/DunsmuirRailroadDepotHistoricalSociety www. www. Open: April through December Open: 3rd Saturday of the month 10: AM to 2: PM Open: May through October Open: Memorial Day thru Labor Day Museum hours and days of operation vary during the seasons. Please call or check their web site for the most current information. Siskiyou County Museum Butte Valley Museum The Museum is an The Butte Valley Museum and interpretive center for the Historical Society goals are to colorful history of Siskiyou recognize, preserve, display County and includes and interpret the history of � ������ �� exhibits, programs, and a Butte Valley. research library. The Museum is under development. The People’s Center WW II Valor in the Pacifi c National Monument The Cultural Center and Tule Lake Unit �������� ������ Museum of the Karuk Tribe The WW II Japanese-American exhibits items representative Tulelake Segregation Center and of Karuk culture and history the former CCC Camp Tulelake, and includes a basketweaving used for Japanese-American in- � ������� � ���� � � ��������� � ����� � classroom and the Karuk ternees and Italian and German ��� ��� ������ �� ������� ���� � Language Program Offi ce. POW’s are featured. � � � Fort Jones Museum Tulelake Museum Fort Jones’ “biggest little museum” of Local History features a Shasta rain rock and an History of the Tulelake Basin exterior of fossils, obsidian, and and Butte Valley homesteads, ����� ����� ��� ��������� ������� ���� Native American stone tools. The military veterans, the Modoc museum features hundreds of unique Indian War and the Tule Lake �������� ����� � ��� �� ������ artifacts of the area. Internment Camps are featured at the museum. Etna Museum Klamath Basin NWR Visitor The Museum of the Native Daughters of Center the Golden West, Eschscholtzia Parlor No. Refuge wildlife is colorfully 112, is located in the fi rst Town Hall of described by exhibits at the Etna, which also housed the fi re depart- Visitor Center. Information re- ment, library and jail, and was built to re- garding viewing opportunities, semble Independence Hall in Philadelphia. sightings, road conditions, and regulations is available. Weed Historic Lumber Town Lava Beds National Monument Museum Explore millenia of human Exhibits in the old courthouse history in Native American feature the timber industry and rock art, Modoc War sites, and life in early Weed and the life of the heritage of homesteaders, Charlie Byrd, the fi rst elected ranchers, cave explorers, African American county sheriff “CCC boys,” and the modern in California. Modoc and Klamath tribes. Sisson Museum Montague Railroad Depot The Museum is located in a 1906 Museum building on the grounds of the The 1887 redwood building State Fish Hatchery. Permanent features many railroad and other and changing exhibits display artifacts from Montague and ������� �������� ������ ���������� ���� ���������� ���������� the history and culture of the the Shasta Valley, including the Mount Shasta area. station agent’s living quarters ��� ������ � ��� ������� �� ����� ������� ��������� �������� upstairs. ����������� ����� �� �������� ��� ����������� Dunsmuir Railroad Depot Heritage Junction Museum Museum of McCloud ��� ���� ���� �� ��� ����� ��� ��� ��� Located in the former S.P.R.R. The Museum displays the logging ���� ���� ���������� ������ train and crew dispatchers’ and sawmill heritage of the town offi ce, the museum features of McCloud and the surrounding railroad photographs and area through artifacts, photo- ��� ���� ��� ���� ���� ����� ��� artifacts, including a model of graphs and written materials . the Dunsmir Roundhouse. ����� �� ����� ������ ���� ����� ���� ���� �� �� �� ������� �������� �� �������� ������ ������.