Category: History Publisher: Arcadia
ISBN-10: 0738569321
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 128
Copyright: June 1, 2009
ISBN-13: 9780738569321
History of the twin towns of Weed and Shastina
The book, simply titled Weed, is part of Arcadia’s Images of America series and contains about 200 interesting and unique historical photographs in six chapters: Abner Weed, Logging in the Field, Mill Work, Tennant, Weed, and Shastina. Stories and photos of many Weed’s families and individuals are included. The photographs were culled from the Weed Museum’s collection, College of the Siskiyous Library, and many local donors who loaned their personal photographs to be scanned.
This is the story of the author’s great great grandparents, Edward Lewis and Sarah Crosby, who were convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. It is told from the perspective of a detective agency searching for what happened to Edward, w