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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TMH_harvesting-the-shore-historical_Fort-Bragg-CA.html
For thousands of years, the Cum-a-Lul Pa'Mu (Coastal Pomo) and neighboring Indian tribal groups have set up seasonal camps within a few hundred yards of this beach to gather the sea's valuable food resources. Fishing Pomo caught ocean fish nea…
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The clatter of lumber and the shouts of longshoremen at Laguna Point began in 1883. Schooners and steamships moored here to take on loads of Mendocino's valuable redwood lumber Laguna Point In 1883, the Laguna Point loading operation served t…
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The strange and beautiful objects found along this beach started out as trash. Until 1959, this site was Fort Bragg's garbage dump. Years of smoldering fires and salt-water spray melted and twisted old cars, household trash, electric materials, an…
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The dynamite stored in this little bunker was used to blast the area's first railway tunnel starting in 1892. The tunnel, built by Union Lumber Company, runs through the ridge dividing the Pudding Creek and Noyo River Watersheds. Powder Monkeys …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TJ5_whirring-saws-silenced-a-pictorial-history-of-the-mill-site-historical_Fort-Bragg-CA.html
You would have heard the buzz of saw blades, the roar of trains and trucks moving logs in and lumber out, the blast of steam from the smoke stack, and the set-your-watch-by-it blow of the lunch whistle. But that's all gone now. The old mill that…
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Long ago, young Lucy Cooper became annoyed by the wind that blew her clothing around. She brought sacred acorn meal from her house and offered it to the wind. The wind stopped. Lucy Cooper's Pomo village, called Kah-la-deh-mun, "surrounded by…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM180H_the-parrish-family-cemetery_Fort-Bragg-CA.html
In 1893 David Franklin Parrish, his wife, Sarah Linebough Parrish, six daughters and four sons, "set out for Fort Bragg...to raise potatoes and peas on the bluffs by the ocean." David had worked with Luther Burbank in Santa Rosa during Burbank's h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7RE_the-weller-house_Fort-Bragg-CA.html
Has been placed on theNational Register of Historic PlacesBy the United States Department of the Interior[Statement of Significance: 1886; Frame; clapboarding; 2 1/2 stories; modified rectangle; hipped roof with hipped dormers; interior and exteri…
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This section of the largest Redwood Tree known to have grown in Mendocino County is dedicated this day, September 6, 1943 by the citizens of the City of Fort Bragg to the memory ofCharles Russell Johnsonwho founded their city Aug. 5, 1889
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6T5_fort-building_Fort-Bragg-CA.html
The last remaining structure and once the original quartermaster's storehouse and commissary of Fort Bragg Military Post 1857-1864, then located near Laurel and Redwood Avenues.
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