Historical Marker · No. 555
Lockhart Ferry
Fall River Mills, Shasta County · California
Erected by California State Park Commission; Fort Crook Historical Society, 1956
The bronze says a massacre and does not say whose. In December 1856 Achomawi men killed Harry Lockhart and four others who had built the road and ferry with his brother Samuel. Samuel raised volunteers from Yreka and Red Bluff, and the reprisals of 1857 killed many Achomawi; Edward Curtis later recorded that the surviving brother shot any Native man he met alone. Fort Crook went up in the valley that summer. The ferry ran again from 1857, moved downstream below Fall River Falls.
What the plaque says
Lockhart Ferry 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 re-established in 1857 below Fall River Falls. Registered Landmark No. 555 Plaque placed August 5, 1956, by California State Park Commission in cooperation with Fort Crook Historical Society.
Where it stands
41.00244, -121.44364 · Directions
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