When the Kelley House Museum in Mendocino was founded 50 years ago researchers here found that people loved a good shipwreck story and wanted to…
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Live in California all your life and if you love the out of doors there is a bird you’d want to seek out and observe:…
What the heck is a Doghole Schooner and what does it have to do with Mendocino County history? Let me explain. It’s your local history…
As a docent at Mendocino’s Kelley House Museum researching a book on the Orr Hot Springs area last year I had amassed more information than…
Senator John Sanford represented Mendocino County’s interest in state government from 1894 to 1908. Well respected as a teacher and a journalist, “He has an…
With the local timber industry ever waning in Mendocino County it’s educational to look back and see what a role logging railroads and lumber mills…
If you enjoy identifying native plants, and recognize a plant growing where it shouldn’t be, it leads you to wonder “How did that tree get…
Nannie Escola, one of the first chroniclers of Mendocino Coast lore, left the Kelley House notebooks full of newspaper clippings and her handwritten notes about…
Want to be a voter in this county in 1894? A potential voter provided the following information: name, age, height, color of complexion, hair color,…