Added: 07/07/2006 |
The Pleasures Provided by a Weaverville VacationIf you are thinking about taking a Weaverville vacation, please do not worry that Black Bart could disrupt your carefully-planned vacation adventure. Relax; the infamous Black Bart no longer roams the streets of Weaverville. He no longer starts gunfights and robs banks, in search of money for his own style of "Weaverville vacation."
Weaverville, a city at the base of the Trinity Alps Wilderness in northern California, was created during the Gold Rush. Its residents once included many miners, most of whom seldom thought about enjoying a Weaverville vacation. Most of them, including 2,000 Chinese gold miners, searched daily for more gold in the hills around Willits.
Today the residents of Weaverville do not derive the bulk of their income from mining. A number of Weaverville residents enjoy the area's tourist dollars, the money that comes into the area from travelers, travelers who want to experience a Weaverville vacation.
Those travelers enjoy the attractions and restaurants in Weaverville.
One of those restaurants contains a special safe. One of those restaurants houses a safe that Black Bart once raided. Today many people on a Weaverville vacation eat at tables near that safe. They are not afraid of Black Bart.
The absence of Black Bart is not the only benefit of a Weaverville vacation. Tourists in Weaverville find it east to work off any extra calories, calories they might have acquired at the local restaurants. One can plan either a day or overnight hike in the Trinity Alps Wilderness.
For those who want greater adventure, that too can be found in Weaverville. Two local companies furnish equipment that can be used for rafting on the Trinity River. Mountain biking and horseback riding are also popular sports in Weaverville. The Weaverville Barn Trail has felt the wheels of many mountain bikes and the hoofs of many horses.
Many of the tourists who stop in present-day Weaverville want to get a glimpse of the Weaverville of the past. They want to see what it was like to live in a town where everyone was panning for gold. Tourists, those who search for a way to re-experience the lifestyle of the Weaverville of old, often visit the Jake Jackson Museum.
Visitors to that Museum can view a large display of mining artifacts. They can see shaker tables, a melting furnace, gold brick molds and two operable gold ore processing stamp mills. They can also observe the sort of operations that once took place in the local blacksmith shop and tin shop.
The Jackson Museum is also a good place to learn more about the history of Weaverville. Some visitors to the Museum have questions about the "Chinatown" that used to exist within Weaverville. All of the Chinese miners lived in that "Chinatown."
If a tourist has acquired a very active imagination, then that tourist might want to put his or her imagination to work at the Jackson Museum. There a tourist might want to imagine the confusion created in any of the Weaverville shops, when word reached such shops about mischief conducted by the infamous Black Bart.
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