I put a list of towns on my site for most of them there is a small discription. Janie http://famos.freeyellow.com/towns.html At 05:01 PM 09/27/2000 EDT, LolaGF@aol.com wrote: >Hello Janie and all, >On our vacation we didn't even make it to Shasta County. We decided this >would be a separate trip. When we were in Sacramento I went to the BLM office >and got the Survey Map I needed to find my Greatgrand Father's Homestead he >had in 1893. For years we were told that it was under the lake. It is not. >For reference I have included a on-line map as I need some direction from >locals. >http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=40.7123&lon=-122.13&s=100&size=s > >If you will go to the map and look for the #1, its east of Pine Grove and >above Hwy. 299. Their is the large word East and to the right of that a small >word east, right below in that section under the small word east is where the >Homestead was located. > >He gave his address as Leighton Post Office, isn't that pretty far away in >miles? or was that usual in those days. > >When he naturalized in 1884 he gave his address as N Cow Creek. When he was >applying for his Homestead, it said he and family left and came back from a >job and continued to make improvements. I noticed that Corondo Mine is a N. >Cow Creek. I had heard that he worked in a mine. >Do you have any info on the Corondo Mine? > >I am also told by an old living Aunt, that they lost the Homestead. So, now >my next area of search is to find out about that. >I am wondering if there is an address for that location. Does anyone know >about that area? BLM, said that the land description stays the same forever. > >We had a great trip dispite the heat! >Jean Hehn > > >