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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29P5_confusion-hill_Leggett-CA.html
Confusion Hill was officially listed by the California Office of Historic Preservation as a State Point of Historical Interest 1/29/10
Confusion Hill was opened in 1949 by George Hudson. It consisted of a Gift
Shop, Snack Bar and the soon to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM276G_captain-fletcher-and-the-navarro-inn_Albion-CA.html
Before 1850
Before European settlement, the Pomo peoples occupied much of the North Coast of California. The Navarro River formed the boundary between the Northern and Central Pomo. Navarro Beach was seasonally occupied as a place to gather she…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XLW_mignon-minnie-stoddard-lilley-historical_Leggett-CA.html
In the woods across the road behind you lies the mausoleum of Minnie Stoddard Lilley, a homesteader, pioneer and teacher of early Mendocino County. From 1904 to 1936 Stoddard taught in a one room schoolhouse in the Andersonia/Percy area. For many …
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TL6_mendocino-masonic-hall-historical_Mendocino-CA.html
Erik Albertson, first Worshipful Master of Mendocino Lodge No. 179, Free and Accepted Masons, undertook construction of this Masonic Hall in 1866.
Albertson carved "Time and the Maiden," the statue which adorns the roof, out of a single virgin r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TKW_timber-years-historical_Fort-Bragg-CA.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TJ9_our-past-through-our-trash-historical_Fort-Bragg-CA.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TJ7_dynamite-shack-historical_Fort-Bragg-CA.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TJ4_surrounded-by-trees-historical_Fort-Bragg-CA.html
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…