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Tuggle Tales: Middletown — Shasta County’s forgotten Gold Rush town

Posted on September 14, 2026 by Jeremy Tuggle

About six miles west of present-day Redding, in the rolling country between the historic town of Shasta and the old mining settlements along Clear Creek, once stood Middletown. Today almost nothing remains to suggest that hundreds of people who once… Continue Reading →

Columns, Opinion Jeremy Tuggle, Middletown, Shasta County history, Tuggle Tales

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  • Comment on Just in time for Halloween and the holidays, REU brings one of Redding’s oldest streets into 21st century by Aleta Carpenter
    Fix the deep indentations in the roads in the neighborhood I happen to share with Mike Littau! I'm sure he's aware of them and as frustrated as I am, attempting to swerve around them as we traverse the streets!
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    What a positive column in these negative times. Having lived in neighborhoods both with and without streetlights, I am in the yes to streetlights camp. I am old now and my night vision can no longer be trusted. Plus, I’ll take the glow of a streetlight any day over those million watt motion detector lights […]
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    In reply to Steve. One of the first things they often do is mount million-candlepower-plus floodlamps on their houses and outbuildings. Their whole property and every property around them get lit up like a nighttime high school football game, a WalMart parking lot, or a high-security prison. The effect is worsened by them moving "closer […]
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