One of my favorite hobbies is volunteering at our local historical society in Shasta Lake . I have been volunteering with them for almost 4 years now and I have been given amazing opportunities. At the historical society we are currently in the process of building and designing a dam museum and I get the honor of being on the design committee, I'm also a member of the board of directors. I love all of the history in Shasta County from the gold rush, to the copper boom which left cities underneath Lake Shasta, to the depression era and the dam which was a major "works project" on the west coast. Interesting facts that I've found out well learning history and designing the museum was that the Oregon trail brought nearly 100,000 people to the West Coast, while the gold rush brought around 500,000 people to the West Coast but during the great depression the mass Exodus from the great plains brought over 2.3 million people to the West Coast. I get the honor of learning these stories and going through the pictures and the archives to design and put together these stories to tell other generations about the history of Shasta County . I work closely with a group of old souls that we like to call the hystericals, these are more than stories to them they are honestly their memories most of them are from the great depression and they traveled across the country with their families to work on the dam shasta dam. Then on the flip side of that some of their stories are from what we call the Sacramento Canyon underneath Lake Shasta before Shasta Dam was built, there was a copper mining metropolitan area in northern California it had a few towns with Kennett being the largest and the population of about 10,000 people. Some of our hystericals used to reside in the Canon and their stories are equally as captivating as the great depression migration stories . We have been working hard on this museum for close to a year now designing it and coming up with the stories and how we want the layouts to be. The hystericals have been working hard on the historical society for about 17 years now preserving the history of their families who lived in Shasta County . In the summer of 2018 we hope to have a museum opened to the public it will be located on shasta dam boulevard in Shasta Lake City. I hope that we can pass down the stories and the heritage of past generations so that our generations can respect the hard work, determination and tenacity that it took to build this great nation.
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Xoxo~Kayle Jo
