Historic Hayfork In Photos

Posted By Don Sumner on Jul 7, 2014 |


TrinityCountyCoveredWagon

A covered wagon delivering goods from neighboring communities, 1890s.

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NaturalBridge

Natural Bridge is 150 feet long and about 30 feet high, on Dobbins Gulch Road. It is the site of the April 23, 1852 Bridge Gulch Massacre, in which more than 150 of the Wintu people were mis-indentified as harboring a murderer, and killed by 70 American men led by Sheriff William H. Dixon.

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1930sJail

The Hayfork Jail in the 1930s.

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Screen Shot 2014-06-16 at 4.23.05 PM The Gates family operate Camp Trinity, a ranch retreat that began as the family’s Bar 717 Ranch. Still owned and operated by the Gates family, Camp Trinity is the oldest accredited co-educational summer camp in California.

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barnHistoric barns still dot the fields and hills surrounding Hayfork.