Tower House Historic District

Tower House Historic District
Tower House, California
Tower House Historic District is located in California
Tower House Historic District
LocationCa 299, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
California
Coordinates40°39′50″N 122°38′10″W / 40.664°N 122.636°W / 40.664; -122.636
Built1852
NRHP reference No.73000257[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 2, 1973
Camden House after the 2018 Carr Fire burned the yard; the house itself was saved

Tower House, California was a mining town in Shasta County. The mining District of Tower House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 2, 1973, as #73000257 as the Tower House Historic District. The Tower House Historic District is located just west of the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. The town started as a California Gold Rush camp. The town is named after Levi Tower, who built the Tower House Hotel and helped establish the town.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ Historic Resource Study, Whiskeytown National National Recreation Area, Anna Coxe Toogood, 1973, page 30-47
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference auto2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Tower House Historic District Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.