The Robert Law family, 1913. Robert and Elizabeth Freathy Law driving in a one-horse buggy from Little River to Mendocino on their way to church with their children, Edward and Jean. The horse was named "Susie." The road is bordered by a split rail fence. (Gift of Jean Rice) Robert Law was born in Lachute, Canada in 1868. He immigrated to the US around [...]
As a Kelley House docent researching a book on the Orr Hot Springs area, I have amassed more information than I could ever possibly use in what I plan to be a small publication on the subject. While the who, what, when, where, why and how facts get arranged into chronological order, it’s the odd, poorly documented tidbits of information that keep distracting me. Postcard [...]
Mendocino Shipping Point and the blowhole beneath it. The Wire chute and hoisting apparatus can be seen on the left, with storage and machinery sheds to the right, 1925-1940. (Gift of Dot Johnson, The Everett Racine Collection, Kelley House Photographs) Mendocino Book Two by Dorothy Bear and Beth Stebbins - Meet the Ford family, founders of Mendocino. Learn about Henry Meiggs and the Mendocino Lumber Company [...]
Stockton City, wrecked off Russian Gulch, 1922. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) December 28, 1922 - The gas steamer Stockton City wrecked on the north side of Russian Gulch. She was a small vessel of 115 gross tons built in 1898. She had pulled into Russian Gulch harbor the previous day, but the seas were too rough to unload the cargo, so she [...]
Mendocino Mill Crew, 1897. Front row, left to right: William (Bill) Hines, George Knudsen, Frank Brown, Ernest Knudsen, Will Brown, Albert Gregory, John Salvador. Second row: Henry Kleinschmidt, Joe King, Sr., John Ramus, Fred Halling (Mill boss), Albert Peterson, Frank Clement, Theodore Hansen, Sam Bever (planing mill foreman). Third row: George Jarvis, Frank Mendosa, Tom Knudsen, John Larsen, George Marshal (sawyer), Unidentified, Isaac Silvia, Tom [...]
Herman and Amelia Fayal celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary on December 26, 1964, as guests of honor at a party given by their daughter, Jacqueline McDonell, at her home on Kelly Street. L - R: Herman Jr., Marie, Herman Sr., Amelia, John, Jacqueline. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) December 26, 1914 - Miss Amelia Costa became the bride of Herman C. Fayal. The [...]
A Christmas Party in Mendocino at the home of Henry H. Jarvis on December 25, 1906, on Little Lake Street. People in the photograph are mostly unidentified except C. O. Packard in the far right corner. Next to him, on the left is his son, Harold Packard. Standing in foreground is Henry Jarvis and on his left is Albert Brown in the bowler hat and beard. [...]
Mendocino's Main Street Before Prohibition, c. 1905-1908. Photographic postcard of Main Street in Mendocino looking westward. On the north side, edged by a long boardwalk, are the business buildings. The large two-story building with an enormous sign on its eastern wall was "Gus' Saloon." Behind it is a 30-foot-high water tower and windmill. It was once owned by Charles Gustavus "Gus" Semmler, a former tallyman [...]
Of the four children born at the Kelley home in Mendocino, Otis is the most elusive. Details are missing and you can’t help wondering what really happened with him. Otis Kelley piloting a small motorboat. Otis is wearing his signature hat and smoking a pipe. Location appears to be the mouth of Big River in Mendocino, with The Shipping Point in the background. (Kelley House [...]
The Dalliance Quartet singing Renaissance Christmas music. L - R: Jim Denton, Bessy Moore, Jeffery Garcia and Barbara Faulkner. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) December 22, 1983 - A Christmas celebration was held at the Kelley House Museum. Rain Straight Down presented a program of poetry and music. Jay Frankston read his book, “A Christmas Story,” music was provided by Jack Leung on [...]