Trade Tokens from Historical California Gold Mining Towns
Redding, California
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Coin Details
| Origin/Country: |
United States California Post-Gold Rush |
| Item Description: |
Gold discovery marker at Clear Creek, Redding, California and 1905 Redding downtown |
| Full Grade: |
Genuine |
| Owner: |
Cal Gold "Token" Guy |
Owner Comments:
The first European settlement in the area was established in 1844 by Pierson B. Reading, an early California pioneer who received a Rancho Buena Ventura Mexican land grant for a 26,632 acre area that is now occupied by Redding and Cottonwood, California. At the time of its establishment, it was the northernmost nonnative settlement in California. During the gold rush, the area that is now composed of Redding was called Poverty Flats. In 1868 the first land agent for the Central Pacific Railroad, a former Sacramento politician named Benjamin Bernard Redding, bought property in Poverty Flats on behalf of the railroad so that it could build a northern terminus there. In the process of building the terminus, the railroad also built a town in the same area, which they named Redding in honor of Benjamin Redding. Redding was officially incorporated on October 4, 1887