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The Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum is located in Samoa, California, a small town across Humboldt Bay from Eureka.The focus of the museum is the preservation and interpretation of its collection of artifacts, photographs, library archives and materials which relate principally to the maritime history of California's North Coast.
Greater Eureka, one of California's major commercial fishing ports, is the location of the largest deep-water port between San Francisco and Coos Bay, a stretch of about 500 miles (805 km). [22] The headquarters of both the Six Rivers National Forest and the North Coast Redwoods District of the California State Parks System are in
Aerial view of Humboldt Bay, the Port facilities (primarily in the upper left of photo) and the City of Eureka, California. The Humboldt Bay Harbor Recreation & Conservation District (HBHRCD), created in 1972 by local voters, is the governing body of the Port of Humboldt Bay, a deep water port, and the Port of Eureka.
Before 1977, summer air rescue in the area was done from the Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco, but the two-hour response time was too long for victims floundering in the typically 40–50 °F water so, on June 24, 1977, the Coast Guard Group / Air Station Humboldt Bay was commissioned with headquarters at a new $3.5 million facility at the ...
In the early morning hours of February 26, 1860, local settlers from the nearby town of Eureka descended onto Indian Island armed with firearms, clubs, knives, and hatchets. [18] For over an hour, the group of settlers killed and mutilated every single Wiyot they could find. The majority of those murdered were women, children, and elders.
The Eureka!Restaurant Group is a full-service hamburger restaurant group based in Hawthorne, California. [1]Its restaurants sell hamburgers and other foods made with locally sourced ingredients, a wide and rotating range of craft beers chosen individually at each location, and artisanal spirits.
Old Town Eureka (formally the Eureka Old Town Historic District) in Eureka, California, is a historic district listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. It is a 350-acre (1.4 km 2) area containing 154 buildings mostly from the Victorian era. The core of the district runs the length of First, Second, and Third Streets ...
The Carter House Inn is a hotel in Old Town Eureka, California. It is known both for housing Restaurant 301 and for being a replica of a Queen Anne style building by Newsom and Newsom, renowned builder architects of many 19th century structures in California.