If you asked the average man or woman on the street why Redding is known as Redding, my hunch is at least nine out of ten couldn’t come up with the names Benjamin B. Redding or Pierson B. Reading, both clever, opportunistic fellows with impressive resumes that date to the mid-19th century. Ancient history.
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