The wreck of the S. S. Samoa (Emery Escola Collection, Kelley House Museum) Falling apart at the seams? That’s what happened a little over a century ago to a coastal steamer belonging to the Caspar Lumber Company. The Samoa carried a crew of twenty-one men and 380,000 feet of lumber on the morning of January 28, 1913. She was making her usual run from [...]
M. M. Hazeltine's photograph of the west end of Mendocino's Main Street, looking northwest, taken before the fire of 1870. Identified buildings from back to front: the Mendocino Lumber Company Cookhouse (chimney on roof) and millworker's cabins, William Heeser's general store, and Carlson's City Hotel with balcony. William Kelly's store is next to Chamberlain's "Mendocino Drug Store,” which was located on the northwest corner of [...]
MacCallum Water Tower and Kelley Baptist Church, 1908-1956. A view from Albion Street looking north at the rear elevation of the Kelley Baptist Church (right) and on the left the MacCallum water tower with windmill. An ornate picket fence along Albion Street encloses the garden of the MacCallum house. (Gift of Margaret Kelley Campbell) February 15, 1903 - Mrs. Eliza Kelley rang the new [...]
Photograph and pennant commemorating the service of the Frank Mendosa Family during World War I. The pennant was presented to Frank Mendosa, Sr. for having five sons serve in the Armed Forces during a time of war. On the left side is an official photograph of President Woodrow Wilson, and on the right side is the pennant of white satin with a red border. Five [...]
Interior of the South Main Meat Market, c. 1920. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) In 1874, Dudley O. Philbrick left the employ of the Mendocino Lumber Company to open a meat market in Mendocino. Philbrick constructed a building on the south side of Main Street across from the intersection of Main and Kasten Streets. The lumber company, which owned the property, supplied the [...]
A view of Main Street in Mendocino, c. 1920, looking west. On the right or north side of the street, the Central Hotel with its balcony can be seen in the front right of the photograph. Next to it is the former OK Saloon, then the Pioneer Drugstore Building, then the Remedy Store, then the two-story Jarvis-Nichols Building that had Burtt Elliott's General Store at this [...]
Woodmen of the World (WOW). Front row [L to R]: Fred Peterson, Carl Nystrom, Olaf Tannlund, Metcalf. 2nd row [L to R]: Percy Daniels, Mr. Sjolund, Roy Switzer, John Strum, Bert Stone, unidentified, Charlie Peterson, Lee Dodge, unidentified, unidentified, Ambrose Patton, Jim Chalmers, John Larson, Tracy, unidentified. (Emery Escola, Emery Escola Collection, Kelley House Photographs) February 11, 1937 - Percy Daniels died at noon, [...]
The Albion Field Station of Pacific Union College has produced an amazing body of work after 60 years of research on myriad topics relating to the Mendocino Coast. Thirty years ago, Dr. Richard White was publishing “Mendocino Medicine and Gazetteer” and highlighted the station’s research on natural history. Here’s some information on the Albion area I’d bet most folks don’t know exists. Railroad Slough on [...]
Portrait of Dr. William A. McCornack, Physician, Surgeon, and Obstetrician, 1874-1895. February 9, 1918 - Dr. William A. McCornack died in Oakland, following a heart attack. Born in Elgin, Illinois in 1849, Dr. McCornack came to the Mendocino Coast in 1873 and opened a medical office in Little River. Several months later, he moved to Mendocino where he practiced medicine for the next 23 [...]
Mendocino Mill Crew, c. 1915. Front row [L to R]: Minnie Paoli, Jesse Paoli, Rafael Paoli, Carmel Paoli, Ansano Paoli. Middle row [L to R]: Herman Fayal, A. V. Silva, Melville Fraser, Tony Silva, Earl Cummings, Frank Brown, Bob Bever, Tom Doyle, Unidentified, Gus Mendosa. Back row [L to R]: Frank Mendosa, John Gomes, Manuel (?) Silveria, Joe Pedro Vieira, Tony Gomes, Tony Fraga, Herman [...]