Whole page on Orleans by Chet. Photos include: Ray McGain's Inn, historic Orleans Hotel, P.L. Young Home, school, home of W.C. Van Fleet, old gold dredge idle since 1941 Dec 7. The McGain Inn was built in 1940 as was the Orleans Bridge. The store was founded by William Wasmuth in the 1860's. Most of the people in Orleans first came to mine ... & then stayed. Bill Hotelling was our first forest ranger. His son Wes is the chief ranger at Salyer. Population ~ 300 in the area, of permanent residents. There are 23 pupils in the school. During the depression many families came to Orleans to try gold mining. The school started in 1872. P.L. Young, Orleans senior citizen, built his house in 1900. He has the finest collection of Indian artifacts & baskets. He was sent to Orleans from England in 1887 to operate mines for British interests. The great flood of 1890 wiped out bridges and mines in the entire area. After the flood he took over mines through a lease, built a 13 mile flume, & got the ruined mines going again. He also built a sawmill. P.L. Young says Americans first came to Orleans in 1852. He worked on surveying & construction the difficult Hoopa to Weitchpec road & was engineer in charge of the Weitchpec & Hoopa bridges. He surveyed the Klamath River canyon for a proposed road from 101 up to Blue Creek. He noted that Burr Mcconnaha had 26 horses in Trinidad & ran stages over the Bold mtn road into Orleans. On p.25 the article continues. There is a photo of the former McGain hydraulic mine. Oscar Lord was born in Orleans & his father came there about 1860 to start a store. Orleans Bar had its own newspaper in early times called "Klamath News". Oscar says Klamath county was ended in 1874 due a $12,000 bond dept it couldn't pay. So the area was split between Humboldt & Siskiyou Counties & they paid off the debt. Humboldt County grew by 1/3. The last sheriff of klamath county was T. M. "Mac" Brown. He moved to Eureka in 1875. His old home still stands on the NW corner of 3rd & M.