Not quite like the Bermuda Triangle, but it is an interesting piece of real estate, that really belongs to no one. Actually, the owner is the federal government, due to Roop’s carelessness. The Lassen County Assessor does not even recognize its existence of this parcel.

The property in question, is located at the west end of Susanville’s Main Street, which people are familiar is the triangle piece of property in front of the Elk’s Lodge, with the diverging Pine Streets going in different directions, creating kind  of like  a “fork in the road.” Currently, a community Christmas tree is placed there and in years past various other Christmas displays.

By the 1890s the local newspapers wrote editorials criticizing that it was an ugly patch of unkept property at the head of Main Street.  Relief came in 1902, when the Mountain Echo Band constructed a bandstand there. Four years later, the bandstand had been neglected and received community scorn for it being an eyesore, and was torn down shortly thereafter.

This parcel truly came into existence in 1922 with the construction of Highway 36. For years, the City of Susanville maintained it, by water the mowing the lawn. The Monticola Club would plant flowers along the lawn’s edge.  Today it is a dry patch of scorched earth.

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