Jake Jackson Museum

05/27/2026

We're now open 7 days a week, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., through Labor Day. We hope you'll come in and check out the new displays on both levels of the museum and out in the carriage barn.

05/10/2026

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who joined us last night for our "Night at the Museum" fundraiser! We had great music, great food, and great company. We hope you all enjoyed yourselves as much as we did!

05/04/2026

THIS SATURDAY - TICKETS SELLING FAST

JOIN US FOR OUR "NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM" FUNDRAISER featuring rare artifacts that will only be on display during the Gala; great music provided by The French Connection; door prizes; and locally catered food plus liquid refreshments provided by Alpen Cellars and the Trinity County Brewery.

Tickets are available at the Jake Jackson Museum, Olson Stoneware, Crockett's Up North, Highland Art Center, Main Street Shoes, and the Trinity County Visitor Center

04/28/2026

JOIN US FOR OUR "NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM" FUNDRAISER featuring rare artifacts that will only be on display during the Gala; great music provided by The French Connection; door prizes; and locally catered food plus liquid refreshments provided by Alpen Cellars and the Trinity County Brewery.

Tickets are available at the Jake Jackson Museum, Olson Stoneware, Crockett's Up North, Highland Art Center, Main Street Shoes, and the Trinity County Visitor Center

04/19/2026

RAFFLE FUNDRAISER - Win a special edition engraved Henry .22 caliber lever action Golden Boy. The Redding and Weaverville stage is engraved on the stock of this one-of-a-kind rifle. Tickets are on sale at the Jake Jackson Museum, Up North, the Nugget Restaurant, the Visitor Center, the Chamber of Commerce, and Creative Prints by Hanna.

04/09/2026

JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST "NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM" FUNDRAISER

04/05/2026

JOIN US FOR OUR MONTHLY PROGRAM at the North Fork Grange Hall in Junction City on April 11, 2026, to learn about the U.S. law that banned Chinese immigration.

Passed in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first major U.S. law restricting immigration, explicitly banning Chinese laborers from entering the country for ten years due to racial animosity and economic competition.

Dero Forslund will talk about what led up to the exclusion act, and the effect it had after it was enacted, particularly the role California played in it.

We hope to see you at 2:00 p.m. at the North Fork Grange Hall in Junction City for our potluck, with the program following at 3:00 p.m. You don’t need to be a member to attend.

03/30/2026

02/03/2026

WOMAN WITH BROOMSTICK KEEPS ORDER IN TRINITY. Mother, Angered by Son’s Injury, Quells Near Riot in Lewiston.
Lewiston (Trinity Co.), Dec. 1 – A woman with a broomstick quelled a near riot in Lewiston, Trinity county [sic], after an armed deputy sheriff had been run from the field. Twenty-five alleged members of the I.W.W.,* half of a crew employed there by the Northern California Power company, demanded free meals on rainy days when they could not work. Their demands being denied, the men commenced to raise rough house with the chauffeur of the company’s auto truck. Deputy Sheriff Mark Van Matre, who was not armed, attempted to quell the disturbance, but when the band set upon him and bade him go inside the store and stay there he obeyed orders immediately.
Leas Dickey, son of Mrs. Louis Domenici, had his nose smashed in assisting Van Matre. Hearing this, Mrs. Domenici, armed only with a broom-handle, rushed out of the butcher shop next door and smashed right and left with it so furiously the trouble makers retreated from the field and departed afoot for Redding. Mrs. Domenici is hailed as the heroine of Lewiston. (Sacramento Union, December 2, 1916)

* “I.W.W.” stands for the “Industrial Workers of the World,” an inter-national union with an anti-capitalistic ideology and ties to the Communist Party. Some people interpreted the “I.W.W.” as the “I Won’t Work” movement.