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The society is open to requests by the public for research in the society's collection, which consists mostly of documents. HCHS also provides a number of educational opportunities, including frequent public talks on various aspects of Humboldt County History, and publishes a quarterly journal and books.
Throughout its history Humboldt County has been the site of several county-wide or regional newspapers. They include the Humboldt Bay Journal (1865–1867), National Index (1867–1868), Humboldt Bay Democrat (1868), Northern Independent (1869–1872) and finally the West Coast Signal which began in 1871 and lasted until 1880.
The crew got off safely when this lumber schooner was wrecked on the Humboldt Bay bar. [6 4] Corona United States, 1 March 1907. Built in 1888 in Philadelphia, this passenger ship wrecked at the entrance to Humboldt Bay. One person died in the first boat lowered, the rest of the 154 people on board waited for rescue by the life-saving station ...
Facebook rolls out keyword search for all posts, part of Facebook Graph Search, to all US English users on desktop and using iPhones. [458] [459] [460] It is cited as a potential competitor to Yelp and other product recommendation engines [461] and also as a potential way to surface old, embarrassing posts by people. [462] 2014: December 11 ...
On the evening of February 6, 1885, around 6 pm, Eureka City Councilman David Kendall was caught in the crossfire of two rival Chinese gangs and killed. Two hundred feet from Chinatown was Centennial Hall (built a decade before to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence), where a crowd of over 600 whites gathered and decided to evict the Chinese.
Raymond L. Wallace (April 21, 1918 − November 26, 2002) was an American amateur Bigfoot hoaxer.. Wallace was born in Clarksdale, Missouri.He worked as a logger for much of his life, but also in road construction throughout much of Washington, Oregon and California.
The Stephen Harris Taft House is a historic house in Humboldt, Iowa, United States.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [1] Stephen Taft was a native of New York who came to Iowa in 1862 and established the settlement of Springvale, which was eventually renamed Humboldt.
In 1892, Vance Lumber Company purchased the Humboldt Bay frontage from Samoa Land and Improvement Company for construction of a large sawmill. [1] Eureka and Klamath River Railroad was chartered in 1893 to connect the Samoa, CA sawmill and associated worker housing facilities to the city of Arcata and timberlands near the Mad River.