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Douglas City is a census-designated place (CDP) in Trinity County, California〔 first settled during the California Gold Rush. Douglas City sits at an elevation of .〔 The ZIP Code is 96024. The community is inside area code 530. The 2010 United States census reported Douglas City's population was 713. The Whiskeytown–Shasta–Trinity National Recreation Area is nearby. ==History== The prehistoric residents of the area were Wintun people; from North Fork to Douglas City the group was called ''Tien-Tien'' which means "friends". The Karuk called the same people the ''Kashahara''. Local people suffered loss of population beginning with the epidemic of 1842. The explorer Jedediah Smith and his party came through the Hayfork area in 1828, killing several local people to intimidate the others and permit their passage. The Tien-Tien population was further reduced during the gold rush along the Trinity River. In 1848, Pierson B. Reading found gold along the Trinity; the bar he worked is at Reading's Creek just south of the Douglas City bridge. Reading took out over $80,000 dollars of gold on his first trip.〔 Douglas Bar was active before 1856.〔 Settlers arrived quickly, workings began on other bars in the area and towns formed at places along the trails for housing and supply.〔 In just two years, every bar along the Trinity and its tributary streams was being worked and agriculture had started in some of the valleys.〔 Douglas City was settled by Europeans and Americans around 1850 as a mining and supply town. It was named after Stephen Douglas of Illinois, who became well known after the Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858. The Arkansas Dam, built by a group of Canadian miners who later settled in Humboldt County, California, was downstream from Douglas City.〔 A natural bridge near Douglas City was the site of the Bridge Gulch Massacre in March 1852. A war party of whites intent on avenging the murder of a popular bartender at a saloon in Weaverville killed about a hundred Wintun at the natural bridge. The streams and hillsides of the area suffered during the Great Flood of 1862.〔 Gold panning and hydraulic mining continued. By 1864, the river bars around Douglas City had produced over $1,000,000 of gold, an enormous sum in 1864 dollars. The first Post Office in Douglas City started in 1867. Until 1857 all transport to and from Douglas City was by foot, mule or horse. When a private road was built through the area, four-horse stagecoachs ran from Weaverville through Douglas City to Redding Creek, Brown's Creek and Hayfork Valley.〔 In 1863 locals formed the ''Douglas City Rifles'' to combat the Wintun; none of their raids caused bloodshed.〔 In 1859, Theodore Eldon Jones (later the first Trinity County Superior Court Judge) started the short-lived ''Douglas City Gazette'' newspaper.〔 Renamed ''Trinity Gazette'', it stopped publishing in 1861 as people left the area for the American Civil War and new gold diggings in Idaho. The Douglas City Library was founded on September 27, 1916 by Maude Marshall who maintained it in her home for both the public and students at the Douglas City school district. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Douglas City, California」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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