Historic California
Posts, Camps, Stations and Airfields
Camp Liscom Hill
(Fort Liscom)
A log cabin post, occupied by a small
group of California Volunteers, four of them members of the local
Janes family, was established during April 1862 at Liscom's Hill
to furnish escorts to travelers, express messengers, and supply
trains. Liscom Hill was named for Charles Liscom, a well known
Humboldt County pioneer. Afier the Civil War the site was the
location of Scottsville, formerly the Bates Ranch. Scottsville
eventually joined Blue lake as the latter town spread northward.