Lassen Peak was named in honor of the Danish blacksmith Peter Lassen, who guided immigrants past this peak to the Sacramento Valley during the 1830s.
Banner Lassen Medical Center and Lassen College in Susanville, Lassen County, California, Lassen National Forest, Lassen Peak and Lassen Volcanic National Park are named after him.
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The Lassen Cutoff continued to Goose Lake in northeastern California, and then followed the Pit River into California's Central Valley.
In 1841, Majors, Graham, a German named Frederick Hoeger, and a Dane named Peter Lassen, agreed to erect a mill on Zayante Creek near where it enters the San Lorenzo River.
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