Giddings Hill
In going down the Klamath River to Hornbrook the road crosses Cedar Gulch and then goes over a little hill and down to the
river again. The hill is called Giddings Hill, and is not as noticeable over the new road as it used to be. On the old road in earlier years the hill was a good pull for the horses when the wagons were used, and the arly automobiles often had trouble with the hill when the road was muddy from the rains. The new road follows along where the old cut-off trail used to be, and is not as steep as the old road was,
Giddings Hill was named after Abner and Henry Giddings. Thew were father and son who lived near the hill and both were early day stage drivers. They drove stages between Yreka, California, and Jacksonville, Oregon before the railroad was built through Siski you Mountain.
George Wright descriptions