Fort Bragg, California
City of Fort Bragg Aerial view of the southern section of Fort Bragg and the mouth of the Noyo River.
Aerial view of the southern section of Fort Bragg and the mouth of the Noyo River.
Location in Mendocino County and the state of California Location in Mendocino County and the state of California City of Fort Bragg is positioned in the US City of Fort Bragg - City of Fort Bragg State California Fort Bragg is a coastal town/city along State Route 1 in Mendocino County, California.
It is 24 miles (39 km) west of Willits, at an altitude of 85 feet (26 m). A California Historical Landmark, the town/city was founded, before to the American Civil War, as a military garrison clean water a fortification. Fort Bragg is a tourist destination because of its picturesque views of the Pacific Ocean.
In prehistoric days, the region now known as Fort Bragg was home to Native Americans, most of whom belonged to the Pomo tribe.
Braxton Bragg, who later became a General in the Army of the Confederacy. The official date of the establishment of the fort was June 11, 1857; and its purpose was to maintain order on the reservation.
Gibson and Company M, 3rd Artillery, left Fort Bragg in January 1859 to be replaced by Company D, 6th Infantry, which stayed for two years and continued to build up the post.
In October of that year, the Fort Bragg garrison was loaded aboard the steamer "Panama" and instead of the evacuation and abandonment of Mendocino County's first military post.
The last remaining building of the Fort Bragg military post is positioned at 430 North Franklin Street.
The approximate boundaries of the fort extend from the south side of Laurel, east from the barns depot to the alley behind Franklin, down the alley to a point 100 feet (30 m) south of Redwood Avenue, west on Redwood to just beyond the Georgia-Pacific Corporation business offices, then north to connect with the Laurel Street border at the barns station.
By 1867, the reservation and military outpost at Fort Bragg were abandoned.
By 1873, Fort Bragg had an established lumber port at Noyo.
In 1869, after the fort was abandoned, the territory of the reservation was returned to the enhance and offered for sale at $1.25 per acre to settlers.
Johnson who, with partners Calvin Stewart and James Hunter, had been operating a sawmill in Mill Creek on the Ten Mile River, moved their foundry machinery to Fort Bragg to take favor of the harbor for shipping.
The business incorporated in 1885 as the Fort Bragg Redwood Company.
In 1891, after merging with the Noyo River Lumber Company, it was retitled the Union Lumber Company.
The Fort Bragg Railroad was established to haul logs to the mill.
Fort Bragg was incorporated in 1889 with C.
Built in Fort Bragg for Horace Weller in 1886, the Weller House is the earliest existing home in the city.
The Union Lumber Company was incorporated in 1891 by absorbing some of the lesser lumber companies in the area.
After culmination of the tunnel, most of the Chinese settled in Fort Bragg and Mendocino.
In 1901 the Union Lumber Company incorporated the National Steamship Company to carry lumber, passengers and supplies.
In 1905, the California Western Railroad and Navigation Company was established and plans were pushed to get the rail line all the way to Willits, where train connections to the Northwestern Pacific would link to San Francisco.
Coincidentally, the earthquake brought real prosperity to Fort Bragg as the mills furnished lumber to rebuild San Francisco, and the lumber ships returning from San Francisco were ballasted with bricks used for stone Fort Bragg. With the new prosperity, the rail line to Willits was instead of and in 1912 the first tourists came to Fort Bragg.
By 1916 Fort Bragg had turn into a prominent place to visit and to settle.
Once a primary commercial fishing port, Fort Bragg was well known for producing character fish products that were distributed to primary urbane markets.
The emergence of the City of Fort Bragg as a diverse residentiary, recreational and burgeoning commercial region had begun and the town/city was on the path to becoming what it is today.
The Guest House Museum is the repository of artifacts and records telling the story of Fort Bragg. Recently, Georgia Pacific Lumber Company put on the market a 400-acre (1.6 km2) piece of property inside the town/city limits, formerly the site of a large foundry facility.
The foundry site takes up almost the entire coastline of Fort Bragg including Fort Bragg Landing.
The enhance of Fort Bragg has embraced the foundry site as the future of Fort Bragg and has proposed many forward-thinking ideas.
Fort Bragg is positioned at 39 26 45 N 123 48 19 W with an average altitude of 85 ft (26 m) above sea level. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.8 square miles (7.3 km2), of which, 2.7 square miles (7.0 km2) of it is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it (1.44%) is water.
Due to Fort Bragg's adjacency to the Pacific Ocean, the town/city has very mild weather throughout the year compared to most inland places.
The climate experienced in Fort Bragg is classified as cool-summer mediterranean climate. Although formally known as dry-summer subtropical; Fort Bragg has very cool summer temperatures for a subtropical climate type.
January, the coldest month, has an average maximum temperature of 55.1 F (12.8 C) and an average minimum temperature of 39.9 F (4.4 C); September, the warmest month, has an average maximum temperature of 65.8 F (18.8 C) and an average minimum temperature of 49.2 F (9.6 C).
The record maximum temperature was 94 F (34 C) on October 5, 1985 (exceeded by 96 F (36 C) on October 23, 1965, at the airport, where records were kept from 1948 to 1972).
The extreme maritime effect of the Pacific Ocean is demonstrated by the fact that Fort Bragg has uniquely cool summers for metros/cities on the 39th alongside north, both domestically and internationally.
Climate data for Fort Bragg, California (1981-2010 normals, extremes 1895 present) In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.6% under the age of 18, 9.3% from 18 to 24, 30.0% from 25 to 44, 22.2% from 45 to 64, and 13.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
Glass Beach in Fort Bragg In the early 20th century, Fort Bragg inhabitants threw their homehold garbage over cliffs owned by the Union Lumber Company onto what is now Glass Beach, discarding glass, appliances, and even vehicles. Locals referred to it as "The Dumps." Fires were lit to reduce the size of the trash pile. In 1967, town/city leaders closed the region and various cleanup programs were brought on through the years to fix the damage.
Fort Bragg is the end of the California Western Railroad (otherwise known locally as the "Skunk Train").
Steam passenger service was started in 1904, extended to the town of Willits in 1911, running through the Coast Redwood forests to the town/city of Willits, 40 miles (64 km) inland.
In 1965 the line reintroduced summer steam passenger service between Fort Bragg and Willits with Baldwin-built steam locomotives Nos.
No.45 continues to power excursion trains from Fort Bragg as far as Northspur, the CWR's midpoint, on chose weekends summer to early autumn.
State Route 1, California's Coast Highway, passes through Fort Bragg as Main Street.
Photo of Fort Bragg City Hall Fort Bragg City Hall In the state legislature, Fort Bragg is in the 2nd Senate District, represented by Democrat Mike Mc - Guire, and the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jim Wood. Federally, Fort Bragg is in California's 2nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Jared Huffman. Children in Fort Bragg attend Fort Bragg High School, Fort Bragg Middle School, Dana Gray Elementary and Redwood Elementary.
Several primary movies have been filmed in and around Fort Bragg, including The Majestic, Racing with the Moon, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, a 1966 comedy movie about a Soviet Union submarine that accidentally runs aground off the coast of New England, and the 1987 romantic comedy Overboard starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. Fort Bragg was also home to the 2011/2012 web series Sundays. Moved to Fort Bragg in 1997 and died there in 2002. As a youth Ken Sasaki noted that his home Otsuchi, Japan, is positioned on the same latitude as Fort Bragg and in 2001 he contacted then-Mayor Lindy Peters and visited with a delegation to open discussions on a sister town/city agreement.
Fort Bragg students visited Otsuchi in 2002 and the Sister-City Proclamation was solidified in 2005 by following Mayor, Dave Turner.
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