US Plywood McCloud, Ca. Black Pioneers

US Plywood McCloud 1955

The friends of Mr. AD Grant ran the US plywood in McCloud. Mr. Grant also worked for US Plywood

McCloud Railroad was sold to US Plywood which later merged with Champion.

At one time US Plywood owned all of McCloud, Ca.

Once a year they would have a Lumberjack Fiesta.

Robert and his family enjoyed the fiesta every year and interacting with people from Siskiyou Country and those who came from out of the area.

Mr. Grant worked for 3 mills: US. Plywood, Mt. Shasta Mill, and the Mill in weed. He may have worked at a mill in Dunsmuir, Ca. also.

Robert Grant worked at US Plywood in McCloud and n the 1970's. He was living with a black family in little Africa, McCloud Ca. Whose names were Loris and Dave.

Loris and Dave lived near the Murphy family, and the Jones' in McCloud. Ca. At the age of 23 Robert left the area to live in San Jose, and got married there. He came back in 1970's with his wife and children, and worked for US Plywood pulling green-chain.

At the age of 18 Robert worked for the US Forest Service in Mt. Shasta; fighting fires and stocking the Sacramento River with fish. 

U.S. Army and Air Force Base

I was born in 1950 to Bertie Lee Grant and Mr. Alford. Alford Grant was one of the men who opened up the interstate in Northern California. at the time the interstate was only one or two lanes. He would take us up to the county fair in Yreka, and it could taken an hour or two to come up or go back because there were so many cars. 

Our family was asked to host the airmen who were stationed at the base in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Our family provided the food and entertainment. People came from Redding, Weed, Mt. Shasta and Dunsmuir, California to our home to dance and socialize and so, we would also meet at the White Front in Weed and the Black Hawk. We got to see Ike and Tina Turner.