Visited on 6/11/2018 on our way back from Springfield, Oregon to visit family and to attend Jeff’s niece, Hannah’s High School graduation ceremony. We stopped on the way back to check out Lake Leavitt which is in a 1,142 acre reservoir in Lassen County. It is located alongside the Southern Pacific Railroad 7 miles east of Susanville, California at an elevation of 4,104 feet.
The reservoir was named after Benjamin Hanson Leavitt (1834–1918), a pioneer rancher and lumberman who came from the state of Maine. Benjamin Leavitt engineered the Honey Lake Valley irrigation system, including Leavitt Lake. Leavitt also named nearby Clinton, California, for his hometown of Clinton in Kennebec County, Maine. The town was renamed Leavitt Lake in 1973 when house construction began there.
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