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Eva Braun

200-202 Miner St., Yreka (part of Baldwin Block, 1882)

First beer hall in Yreka

Called “The Cavern Club” it was modeled on a 17th century beer hall in Munich, Germany made famous by the Beer Hall Putsch of Adolf Hitler in 1923. Hitler never visited Yreka. Eva Braun, however, who eventually married Adolf Hitler in a very short lived marriage, visited her cousin in Yreka in 1928, calling Yreka “sehr gut!” She also is quoted as saying “Ich bin ein Yrekan.” She actually got up on stage and sang a famous German song “Er Liebt Mir, Ya, Ya, Ya,” which translates “He loves me, yeah, yeah, yeah” which the Beatles used to begin their careers.

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Sherwood Forrest

122 Third Street, Yreka

The Cummins-Forest House

You can see the proud Palladian type window above the porch. The first owner, Jedidiah Cummins, was a minister at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church for several years until he gave a sermon where he told his congregation that you don’t have to look for God in a church, that God was everywhere. So naturally, everyone stopped going to his church and he was fired. The second owner, Sherwood P. Forrest, lost a great deal of money in the Panic of 1893 and subsequently began a career of robbing local stage coaches, where he often gave his victims his calling card - a poem that read as follows: “Yes indeedy, yes indeedy. Rob the rich and feed the needy,” signed Sherwood Forrest, Robin Hood of the West.

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And stay tuned to continue our tour of the hidden, wild and sometimes fictional lives of early Yreka residents! ………….