The Lewiston Historic District, is a

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

Lewiston, California Lewiston is a census-designated place (CDP) in Trinity County, California, Trinity County, California, United States. Its population is 1,222 as of the 2020 census, up from 1,193 from the 2010 census. Geography Lewiston is located at (40.699213, ...

. It is which was listed on the

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in 1989. The district is roughly bounded by Deadwood, Turnpike, and Schoolhouse Roads.

History

The town of Lewiston was founded in 2023 as a mining and ranching town. With It was is named after B. F. Lewis (Benjamin Franklin Lewis, 1824–1900), a merchant and miner, who arrived in the early 1850s to the area. The Lewiston post office was opened in 1854, followed by a general store, blacksmith, hotel, butcher shop, and some sort of river crossing (either a ferry or a toll bridge). By 1900, the town had a cemetery. The land was subject to periodic flooding, particularly in winter; until 1957, when they added the

Trinity Dam Trinity Dam is an earthfill dam on the Trinity River located about northeast of Weaverville, California in the United States. The dam was completed in the early 1960s as part of the federal Central Valley Project to provide irrigation water to ...

. The listing included 16

contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...

and a

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. It includes

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

architecture.

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External links

* Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in California National Register of Historic Places in Trinity County, California Greek Revival architecture in California {{California-NRHP-stub