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California State Parks Video Transcript Still Living: The Pioneer Union Cemetery at Shasta State Historic Park Good Morning folks, my name is Jack Frost. I™m a tour guide here at Shasta State Historic Park, and today we™re going to be visiting the Pioneer Union Cemetery here at Shasta. This cemetery was actually established in 1852 for the residents that established this community back in 1849 during the California Gold Rush. One of the things that™s interesting about cemeteries is this is where you can really start searching the history of the people that lived in the community. We have quite a few graves that we™re going to be visiting today. These are our pioneers that lived here in the early days. We™ll get a little bit of history from the gravestones themselves, but it™s actually the research that you do once you visit a cemetery that really brings out the life history of these folks. So, if you™ll follow me up the steps, we™re going to visit some of the first graves here at the top of the hill. The interesting thing about Shasta is that this is only one of nine cemeteries that are located here within the community. This is considered the pioneer cemetery, where a lot of the early 1849 and 1850 pioneers are buried. This particular man, Joseph Waugh, was one of the very early miners that came to California in 1849. He mined here locally and traded here within the community that was established as the commercial center of Northern California. But he very quickly realized that it was the commercial activities that were the real gold mine. So Joseph looked at the support structure here in the area and realized that, with the Sacramento River running very closely to us, and the miners having to get to the other side of that river, he established two ferries across the Sacramento River. That was where he established his wealth. The Waugh Ferry was located at Middle Creek, just below Shasta on the Sacramento River, and, eventually, once he prospered from his ferries, he was able to establish the Waugh Hotel. Later in 1873, the Waugh Hotel became the stop for the California-Oregon Railroad Company and the terminal for all freight and all the supplies t hat came into this community. So, let™s continue on around. This is Joseph Waugh here, and then we™re going to visit Colonel William Magee™s grave. This is Colonel William Magee™s plot, along with his wife, Mary. Colonel Magee was another pioneer miner that came during 1849. He was one of the men that did the same thing as Mr. Waugh. He left the mining career very early and went back to his old profession that he had Page 1 of 7
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