The first Anglo settler at Papoose Meadows, near Eagle Lake was that of 24 year-old Kentuckian, Cyrus Myers who claimed the property in 1873. He was one of the earliest settlers of the Eagle Lake basin. After all, it was not until 1875 that the Dow and Spalding families located near Pine Creek. In September 1876 Myers traded this property along with the improvements he had made (that consisted of a frame barn, a log barn, one log cabin, two outhouses, 800 fence rails and ten tons of hay) to Susanville resident and Lassen County Clerk, Wright P. Hall for sixty-five cows.
It should be noted that when Hall first came to the area, he operated a dairy in the 1860s near Susanville. He established a dairy at Papoose, but he did not operate it. He was involved in numerous activities in Susanville, among them as serving as the Lassen County Clerk, and leased the Papoose operations. His 1906, biography stated he “had a dairy ranch of 1,000 acres in the Papoose Valley.” The statement was somewhat accurate, as Papoose contained 760 acres. Hall, through federal land patents acquired 176 acres in the vicinity of the current Eagle Lake marina. He also acquired, an isolated 161 acres on the west side of the lake, north of the Eagle Lake Resort. In two separate transactions Hall disposed of the properties to Albert Gallatin. On December 16, 1886, Hall sold “Papoose Valley” to Gallatin for $5,000, which he received top dollar. On January 25, 1887, Gallatin purchased the two other parcels for $800.
On a final note, for years the south shore of Eagle Lake was referred to as Hall’s, while the area by Pine Creek was known as Gallatin’s. That changed when the first Spalding Tract was subdivided in 1914. In addition, it was in the 1920s, when Papoose was changed from Valley to Meadows, though who was responsible for the name change is not known.