Gualala, California Gualala is positioned in California Gualala - Gualala The Gualala River near California State Route 1 Gualala (formerly, Guadala, Walhalla, and Wallala) is an unincorporated improve in Mendocino County in the U.S.
State of California. It is positioned north of The Sea Ranch and south of Point Arena, California.
Gualala shares its southern border with the southern border of Mendocino County. It is positioned on the Pacific coast at the mouth of the Gualala River, on State Route 1.
In the California State Legislature, Gualala is in the 2nd Senate District, represented by Democrat Mike Mc - Guire, and the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jim Wood. In the United States House of Representatives, Gualala is in California's 2nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Jared Huffman. "Gualala" was the name given to the site of today's Gualala by the Pomo who had titled the region ah kha wa la lee, meaning "coming down water place" In 1836, Governor Nicolas Gutierrez granted General Rafael Gracie 62.5 square miles (162 km2) of territory between the Gualala River and Mal Paso Creek. Gracie used the territory to graze cattle.
Around that same time Cyrus Robinson filed a homestead for all of the region which is now Gualala where they assembled a hotel, a saloon and a ferry.
By the end of the 1800s Gualala had turn into a primary commercial core for the entire region with a dancing school, the Gualala Municipal Brass Band, and an Opera House. In 1907, Mark Pedotti and Antonio Ciapusci bought the Gualala Hotel property which encompassed 636 acres and among them they divided the property with Antonio acquiring the region of Gualala who later died in 1932.
Today tourists come to close-by Sea Ranch, California for which Gualala is providing tourist and commercial services.
Elementary school students are educated at Horicon School in Annapolis, Sonoma County, or Arena Union Elementary in Point Arena.
Gualala River "Gualala? "California place names of Indian origin" (PDF).
California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State.
State of California.
"California's 2nd Congressional District - Representatives & District Map".
Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco a b c d "Gualala History".
Friends of the Gualala River Municipalities and communities of Mendocino County, California, United States Albion Anchor Bay Boonville Brooktrails Calpella Caspar Cleone Comptche Covelo Hopland Laytonville Leggett Little River Manchester Mendocino Philo Potter Valley Redwood Valley Talmage Alpine Andersonia Arnold Asylum Bell Springs Bowman Place Branscomb Bredehoft Place Burbeck Cameron Camp Noyo Cape Horn Card Place Carpenter Place Clare Mill Crowley Cubbler Place Cummings Dawes De - Camp De - Haven Delmonico Place Dos Rios Duncan Springs Dunlap Place El Roble Elk Fair Oaks Farley Fish Rock Flumeville Four Pines Gallaway Glenblair Grove Gualala Hales Grove Hardy Hardy Place Hays Place Hearst Heath Place Heeser Addition Hendy Grove Indian Springs Inglenook Ingram Irmulco Jim Leggett Place Kibesillah Largo Laughlin Little Penny Longvale Marble Place Marks Place Mc - Clure Place Melbourne Mina Montgomery Nacomis Indian Rancheria Nashmead Navarro Newport Northspur Noyo Oasis Old Bailey Place Old Hopland Old Ornbaun Hot Springs Old Red Rock Place O'Neil Place Orrs Springs Philbrick Mill Piercy Pieta Pine Grove Pomo Pratt Place Presswood Pudding Creek Ranch Ralph Leggett Place Ramsey Redwood Lodge Reeves Place Regina Heights Reilly Heights Reyes Place Ridge Ridgewood Park Riverdale Shake City Simerson Soda Springs (Boonville) Soda Springs (Burbeck) South Fork South Leggett Spyrock Stronetta Tan Oak Park Tatu The Forks The Oaks Twin Rocks Ukiah Rancheria Underwood Park Union Landing Upp Vichy Springs Wanhala Westport Whiskey Springs Whitesboro Woodman Yorkville Coyote Valley Reservation Guidiville Rancheria Hopland Rancheria Iverson Indian Rancheria Manchester-Point Arena Rancheria Pinoleville Rancheria Potter Valley Rancheria Sherwood Valley Rancheria Redwood Valley Rancheria Round Valley Indian Reservation Anderson Arthur Bentley Bokea Bucknell Buldam Cahto Carbon Carey Chomchadila Christine Christine Junction Clearbrook Comfort Crittendon Dapishul Dellavan Duffey Dunlap Echo Empire En Cimo Fairbanks Fountain Gracy Half Way Hardin Hermitage Iverson Junction Kenny Lane Redwood Flat Lema Masut Melborne Camp Mendocino Indian Reservation Moiya Muir Springs North Fork House Northwestern Noyo Lodge Ornbaun Poonkiny Rankin Redwine Reynolds River Garden Rockport Rodgers Rowes Salmon Creek Salsig Sawyers Sherburns Shiegho Signal Port Sunnyside Sylvandale Tilly Tolson Tomki Tomkiah Ubakhea Ulco Usal Wheeler Whitehall
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Populated coastal places in California - Unincorporated communities in California - Unincorporated communities in Mendocino County, California - Logging communities in the United States - California ranchos - 1861 establishments in Californi
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