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  2. Pacific Lumber Company - Wikipedia

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    originally Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway #9; then Siskiyou Lumber Co. of Macdoel, CA; then Humboldt Northern Railroad #5; purchased 1950; retired 1953 and placed on display in Scotia. [27] 19 Baldwin Locomotive Works 0-6-0 Tank locomotive: 1875 3739 purchased from Excelsior Redwood Company [27] 20 Marshutz & Cantrell 0-6-0 Tank ...

  3. Scotia, California - Wikipedia

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    Scotia, formerly known as Forestville until 1888, is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 2 ] It is located on the Eel River along U.S. Route 101 , 8.5 miles (13.7 km) southeast of Fortuna and 244 miles (393 km) north of San Francisco . [ 5 ]

  4. Humboldt Redwoods State Park - Wikipedia

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    Humboldt Redwoods State Park is a state park of California, United States, containing Rockefeller Forest, the world's largest remaining contiguous old-growth forest of coast redwoods. It is located 30 miles (48 km) south of Eureka, California , near Weott in southern Humboldt County , within Northern California , named after the great German ...

  5. Northwestern Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia

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    The Trinidad extension reverted to Hammond Lumber Company control in 1933 and operated as logging branches of the Humboldt Northern Railway until 1948. [ 32 ] Pacific Lumber Company built 7 miles (11 km) of track in 1885 to connect their mill at Scotia with the Eel River and Eureka Railroad at Alton.

  6. Crannell, California - Wikipedia

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    Little River Redwood Company also built the Humboldt Northern Railway to transfer company freight along the Pacific coast directly to Samoa, California. [5] A 1925 map of Crannell presents the various saw and planning mills, as well as dams and blockades on the Little River for logging transport.

  7. Korbel, Humboldt County, California - Wikipedia

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    The sawmill was the first in Humboldt County to use a kiln for drying lumber. [5] The town was originally called North Fork, but was renamed Korbel in 1891 with the arrival of the post office. [2] The Korbel family sold their Mad River properties to the Northern Redwood Lumber Company in 1902. Rail passenger service ended in 1931.

  8. Metropolitan, California - Wikipedia

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    Metropolitan is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. [1] It is located on McDairmid Prairie, on the north side of the Eel River floodplain three miles downstream of Scotia, [2] at an elevation of 72 feet (22 m). [1]

  9. Avenue of the Giants - Wikipedia

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    The Avenue of the Giants is a scenic highway in northern California, United States, running through Humboldt Redwoods State Park. It is named for the coast redwoods that tower over the route. The road is a former alignment of U.S. Route 101 , and continues to be maintained as a state highway as State Route 254 ( SR 254 ).