Monthly Archives: November 2026

Born Annie McGuire on March 21, 1877, Annie’s legacy has profound impact on the Kelley House Museum today. Annie’s parents, James and Rose McGuire, were Irish immigrants who married in San Francisco in 1870. The family lived in Mendocino a brief time before James died after a short illness. Rose and Mary, John’s eldest child from his first marriage, took over providing for the family by [...]

There are tales, harrowing stories, which have been told and re-told for 171 years about the ship that sucked into the blow hole in Mendocino Bay. Are they true? Sidebar – we are not talking about the blow hole with a fence around it at The Point on the Mendocino Headlands. But, if you stand there, then turn eastward and look across the Bay at the [...]