Caldwell Butte, cave and cabin are located near the south boundary of Lava Beds National Monument, near Tulelake, California.
History . . . This trail began as a railroad owned by the City of Klamath Falls and named the Klamath Falls Municipal Railway. After beginning construction in 1917 and reaching Olene a year later, Robert Strahorn, the contractor and major proponent of the project, offered to buy the railroad from the city. The sale […]
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. The order authorized the U.S. military to arrest Japanese American families living on the West Coast, entirely without due process. Thus began a mass incarceration program that targeted over 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry based on the false claim of military necessity. The Tule Lake center was the largest of 10 camps where these people were held.