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PO Box 735 Cobb, 95426
Dedicated to enhancing the visitor's experience at Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest |
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Forest History
Boggs Mountain is named after Lake County pioneer Henry C. Boggs who operated livestock, land and timber interests in the County prior to 1900.
His father, Lilburn W. Boggs, ex-Governor of Missouri, and a successful merchant in Sonoma farmed the Napa Valley. Sometime before 1860 he purchased land in what is now Lake County. Boggs' son Henry C. bought a steam-powered sawmill in 1866 and later combined sawmill, gristmill and planer. Located on the eastern margin of what is now BMDSF, Boggs' Mill and Boggs' Lake operated until 1880. In 1878 Henry C. Boggs bought a small lot near the head of Malo Creek, moving his sawmill there two years later. |
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The Boggs forest area has long been popular to visit.
Note Chalk Bluffs [near Siegler Springs] in the distance. |
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By 1884 Henry Boggs bought almost all the timberland within the present State Forest boundaries. Logging took place on most of what is now the State Forest. By 1898, the Farmers Savings Bank, under its president James W. Boggs, had acquired just about all the acreage presently incorporated by the State Forest.
Hugh Davey then Jim McCauley subsequently owned the property. McCauley established a resort, off BMDSF, near the head of Kelsey Creek renaming it Camp Calso. Jim McCauley died in 1941 and his heirs sold the timber rights to Setzer Forest Products. They harvested all accessible merchantable timber from 1947 to 1950. [More]
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