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Photographer: Douglass Halvorsen
Taken: August 21, 2023
Caption: Replacement and Rededicated Marker
Additional Description: Bagdad (AKA: North Fork). Founded in 1850 by pioneers Craven Lee and David Weed, a rough and ready community of pioneer miners that developed around the store, butcher shop and hotel when extensive gold deposits were discovered on the Trinity River, the North Fork and their gulches.

Peak population five hundred

Archeological excavations in this vicinity in 1979 revealed that human beings were living on this flat over 5000 years ago.

Dedicated August 9, 1953 and rededicated November 10, 2018 by the Mt. Bally Parlor No. 87 NGGW and the Eltopome Parlor No. 55 NDGW
Submitted: August 24, 2023, by Douglass Halvorsen of Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Database Locator Identification Number: p745617
File Size: 7.171 Megabytes

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