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VOLUME 29, ISSUE 1551
Inside this
edition
Paperback
Book sale
Come and get stocked up for
the winter on reading materials
and free time endeavors. Turn to
page 3 for all the details.
Established 1985
SHINGLETOWN, CALIFORNIA
Concert in the
Park:
Terrific music
and great
Entertainment!
by Vera De Witt
Shingletown
Council
In the works by our public Relations Committee is “Welcome
Baskets” for each of our new
residents who move to our lovely
community. Turn to page 7.
Shingletown’s
Upcoming
Events
You don’t want to miss any
events Shingletown has to offer.
Turn to page 11 for a list of all
upcoming events.
In Memory of
Jack Polen
1957 - 2013
Put together a picture perfect day which
Mother Nature thoughtfully provided, lively music
brought by the Bear Creek Band Revisited and a
combo cleverly called ‘The Alley Cats’, add a gathering of friends and what have you got? A ‘Concert
in the Park’!
A while back, the Shingletown Community
Center (SCC) group approached Denise Murray,
coordinator for the Bear Creek Band, if she would
be interested in presenting an entertaining afternoon of music, inviting Shingletown residents and
visitors to come to Upcountry Gardens to enjoy a
musical mixture of classic rock crossed with traditional country. After consulting the band members including Johnny Murray, Denise’s husband
and band-mate, if they would be interested such a
proposal. The sponsoring SCC organization would
take care of the prep work, with the promise that
all donated funds would be equally divided between the Band and SCC. They were enthusiastic
and plans were kick started.
The first hurdle to be surmounted was
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SEPTEMBER 07, 2015
Shingletown
Historical
Society
Inwood/
Ogburn
Cemetery Tour
The Shingletown Historical Society will
be presenting it’s tenth annual free walking tour
of the Inwood Ogburn Cemetery on Sunday, September 20th at 2:00 pm. This jewel of a historic
cemetery graces a northern ridge-top west of
Shingletown proper. The three acres is circled
by towering Ponderosa pines, ancient cedar trees
and sturdy, shady oaks. Pioneer-planted rose
bushes grow along walkways and unique native
plants wander over untrod ground.
The land for the cemetery was most likely
donated by John Ogburn who lived across the
road near the Immigrant Trail (SR44 parallels).
It was developed into a pioneer resting place in
1861. Below heavy snow fall, it seemed the ideal
place for burials.
The first dated grave, April 30, 1860, is
that of Harriet Ball who in 1850 married into the
family that would eventually provide the ferry
across the Sacramento River.
John Ogburn’s daughter (also named
Harriet), grew up knowing where everyone was
buried. Once a map was made, Harriet was responsible for locating the graves and recording
the names. In 1954 the Bear Creek 4-H group
made cement markers for all the unmarked
graves.
Some noteworthy people interred include John Freeland, blacksmith and owner of
Shingletown’s first store, James Latour of national forest fame, author and contractor Marion
Allen, builder of Shasta County’s courthouse
addition, the famous photographer Benjamin
Franklyn Loomis, and others whose names now
grace roads and localities on the Shingletown
Ridge.
Of the large Ogburn family, Judge J.D. Ogburn presided over the famous “Pig Trial”, held
in his own spacious barn. Seventy five people
(including the twelve jurors) attended the trial.
The women of the Red Cross served dinner and
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