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Settlers Begin To Transform The Landscape

By kevpod

This is the fourth of a series on the history of Arcata, excerpted from a 137 page report prepared by Guerra & McBane, LLC, for the City of Arcata, Department of Planning and Community Development. The title of the report is City of Arcata, Historic Context Statement dated March 2012. Those individuals and... »

The Gold Rush Eased Into The Settlement Era

By kevpod

This is the third of a series on the history of Arcata, excerpted from a 137-page report prepared by Guerra & McBane, LLC, for the City of Arcata, Department of Planning and Community Development. The title of the report is City of Arcata, Historic Context Statement dated March, 2012. »

1850 Was A Huge Turning Point In Arcata History

By kevpod

The year 1850 was a politically transformative point in California history. After the 1848 American War with Mexico, the California Territory petitioned to become a state within the U.S. In 1850, statehood was granted, with the provision that it remained a free state. Above the Mexican outpost of Sonoma, little effort had been made... »

Arcata History: Our ’Cata Was Originally Their Kori And Oket’oh

By kevpod

These articles will provide a foundation upon which residents can understand and appreciate the historical development of our city. The first article is about the Wiyot Indians who lived in the area long before the coming of the Euro-Americans. »

Matina Kilkenny: Palmquist’s Humboldt History Archive – His To Sell And Ours To Lose – March 21, 2012

By kevpod

Perhaps, had we been offered the opportunity, the combined efforts of the Humboldt Area Foundation, Morris Graves, HSU, the Clarke, the Historical Society and other historical and cultural organizations, along with interested individuals from Humboldt County and elsewhere around the state, could have pulled together the creation of a new space and the funding... »

How The Arcata Union’s Photo Archives Wound Up In Connecticut – March 21, 2012

By kevpod

Had Palmquist asked the Historical Society board whether they would have taken the Union photos, "I cannot know what we would have done." Kilkenny said. "He did not ask the board. He announced to the board his intentions after the contract was signed." »

HSU Teams With Yale To Digitize Local Historian’s Photos – March 21, 2012

By kevpod

Hundreds of historic photographs collected by the late Humboldt State University photographer Peter Palmquist (’65, Art) will be available online for students, researchers and historians later this year, thanks to a partnership between the HSU Library and Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. »

Sorelle Fluke: On Being Grounded To Your Roots – January 10, 2012

By kevpod

A rewarding way to help your historical society is to simply volunteer. We are all in this community together, but many of us do not know how we even got here, or why we gathered in the first place. »

The Terrible Demise Of Young George Blank – September 3, 2011

By kevpod

From the Arcata Union: Aug. 19, 1911 Fatal Accident Tuesday morning at six minutes past 10 o’clock, George Blank, a young man who had been employed at the Cooperage plant in Arcata in different capacities for nearly five years, met with a shocking accident by being caught in a belt running on the main... »