Gualala, California

Mendocino County

06-31428

Gualala is a river and a town in California. There are several different versions of where the name comes from Gualala. Pomos, Indians who lived in the area, gave the Gualala River a name which meant " water coming down the ". The city got its name from the river. Gualala is located on the Pacific coast of California, north of San Francisco.

History

General Rafael Gracie was given a land grant to the north up to the extends from the Gualala River Stream Mal Paso. This land grant was for about 62.5 square miles. He used the land to keep livestock, and later sold the land for $ 10,000. That was probably a wise decision, because this many immigrants moved to this area. Most of them were farmers. Approximately 1861 placed a man named Cyrus Robinson, and his wife Elizabeth on a farm for the whole area, where now is Gualala. They built and owned a hotel, a saloon and a ferry in Gualala. They also supervised the post and the drill holes. Within a year, they sold some of their land to the men who built the first corn mill in Gualala. This mill was built at the edge of a mountain ravine, now known as Chinese gulch. 1871 caught the mill company to an in-house business. This camp (which still worked ), the water tower and steps down to the river burned to the ground in the 1960s.

• Location in California
• Location in North America
• Mendocino County