Remember When

90 years ago

The Lassen Grain and Milling Company filed articles of incorporation at the county clerk’s office. Susanville’s first mill was to be located within the city’s limits and expected to start flour productions of 53 barrels a day. The capital stock of the company was listed as $30,000.

90 years ago

The board of supervisors held a special session to discuss the construction of a new courthouse to replace the current structure on Roop Street. The board also reviewed different furniture to be placed in the courthouse offices.

121 years ago

Full-page ads for the new coming city of Northern California, Amedee, located in the heart of the Honey Lake Valley, boasted a fine hotel with 60 rooms and plans for a bath house utilizing the famous boiling springs making Amedee the “Health Resort of the West.”

90 years ago

Representatives of a sugar beet factory in Fallon, Nev. visited a site outside Standish to talk to farmers concerning the viability of growing beets in the Honey Lake Valley.

They planned to plant 2,000 acres and sell the beets for $7 a ton.