A Story of Stormy Waters

Better Beginnings
You are standing on the site of the historic town of Dyerville.
In the late 19th century, timber gave rise to a booming community
that served outposts and lumber camps up and down the Eel River.
Dyerville boasted several hotels, mercantile stores, saloons,
a school, and a baseball diamond carved from the river bank.

Today the field along with the rest of Dyerville is gone, swept away in 1955 by the river on which it relied.

Unforgiving Floods


Due to heavy rains and unstable geology, the Eel River ranks as one
of the most erosive rivers in the United States. Settlers in the 1800's
observed periodic floods, and avoided construction too close to
the bank. Unfortunately, a thirty year period of dry weather
encouraged settlement closer to the river's edge.

Beginning in the 1930's, Dyerville experienced a series of
catastrophic floods, that culminated in the "perfect storm" of 1955.

"All day long I watched barn after barn,
house after house going down the river".
Dave Stockton, a Humboldt native

By the time the record-breaking flood of 1964 came along, there
was nothing left of Dyerville to sweep away. The train trestle is
the only remnant of this once thriving community.

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