Places: CA-Pitt

Pittsburg Hill-3,753' (Strawberry Valley)   (39.5151683, -121.1002349)
Pitt River-1,066' (O'Brian)   (40.7562607, -122.3705647)
Pitt Lake-7,506' (Pyramid Peak)   (38.8357769, -120.1256342)
Pittsville

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From GNIS:

• Pitt River:
• Heads at the junction of North Fork Pit River and South Fork Pit River, south of Alturas, trends west-southwest through the Pit River Arm to join the Sacramento River Arm in Shasta Lake.
• From the decision card: "We passed many pits about six feet deep and lightly covered with twigs and grass. The .river derives its name from these pits which are dug by the Indians to entrap game. On' this account, Lieut. V/illiamson always spelled the naina with a single t." 
• See the "Handbook of American Indians", Bulletin 30, Part 2,Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institute
• See the Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States by Henry Gannett, pg 247
• Also called:
• Pitt River
• Pitt's River
• Pitts River
• Upper Sacramento River

Mount Pitt  is a grand object, a perfect cone, about nine thousand feet high, rising far above all the surrounding mountains.     Now known as Mount McLoughlin, a name used as early as 1838. The name Pitt is a corruption of Pit, derived from Pit River, so called because of pits dug by the Indians for trapping game (Lewis A. McArthur, Oregon Geographic Names  [Portland, 1928] 
From Up and Down California by William Brewer, Book 4  Chapter 7


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