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A California Historical Landmark, [11] Fort Bragg was founded in 1857 prior to the American Civil War as a military garrison rather than a fortification. [13] It was named after army officer Braxton Bragg, who at the time had served the U.S. in the Mexican–American War (and would later serve in the Confederate Army during the Civil War). The ...
California Western 45 photo special eastbound at the first crossing of the Noyo River, 2009. The California Western Railroad (reporting mark CWR), AKA Mendocino Railway, popularly called the Skunk Train, is a rail freight and heritage railroad transport railway in Mendocino County, California, United States, running from the railroad's headquarters in the coastal town of Fort Bragg to the ...
Noyo Harbor. An aerial view of the mouth of the Noyo River in Fort Bragg, CA, including Noyo Harbor. Noyo Harbor is the port and boat docking area for Fort Bragg, California, USA. It is built near the mouth of the Noyo River in the town of Noyo, just south of Fort Bragg. Noyo Harbor is located in Mendocino County 130 nautical miles (240 km ...
The Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens are located on 47 acres (19 hectares) in Fort Bragg, California, United States between California's Highway One and the Pacific Ocean. The garden property includes canyons, wetlands, coastal bluffs, and a closed-cone pine forest . The Gardens comprise plant collections suited to its mild coastal ...
38 acres (15 ha) Established. 1959. Governing body. California Department of Parks and Recreation. Glass Beach is a beach adjacent to MacKerricher State Park near Fort Bragg, California, named from a time when it was abundant with sea glass created from years of dumping garbage into an area of coastline near the northern part of the town.
Mendocino Indian Reservation, a former Indian reservation in Mendocino County, one of the early Indian reservations to be established in California by the federal government for the resettlement of California Indians. It was established in the spring of 1856, in the vicinity of modern Noyo. Its area was 25,000 acres (100 km2) and its boundary ...
The Weller House, located at 524 Stewart Street in Fort Bragg, California, is a historic Victorian house that is operating as a bed & breakfast. [2]The oldest building in the city, it was built in 1886 for Horace Alanson Weller Sr., a prominent figure in the early history of Fort Bragg who was manager of the Union Lumber Company Store then co-founder of the town's first bank.
Image [1]Landmark name Location City or town Summary; Fort Bragg: 615: Fort Bragg: 343 N. Main St. Fort Bragg: The site of the original U.S. Army fort is the landmark, not the municipality that is currently there by the same name.