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Posts published by “Katy Tahja”

Mr. Turner & His Doghole Schooners

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 lesson for the day. Once, 130 years ago, there were…

History Tidbits of Orr Hot Springs

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 I could ever possibly use in what I planned to…

Counting Lumber Mills & Logging Railroads

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 once played in the local economy. Take logging railroads —…

Boonville’s Incense Cedar Grove Mystery

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 there?” Take the Incense Cedars growing in the Rancheria Creek…

Golden Days In Comptche

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 local happenings. What follows are some tidbits of interest about…

Mendocino’s Great Register of 1894

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, eye color, visible marks or scars on your body, occupation,…

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