Fort Bragg (California)
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 View of Noyo Bay and the southern part of Fort Bragg |
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| Foundation : | August 5, 1889 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | California | ||
| County : | Mendocino County | ||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 27 ′ N , 123 ° 48 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 ) | ||
| Residents : | 7,302 (as of 2014) | ||
| Population density : | 1,028.5 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 7.2 km 2 (about 3 mi 2 ) of which 7.1 km 2 (about 3 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 26 m | ||
| Postal code : | 95437 | ||
| Area code : | +1 707 | ||
| FIPS : | 06-25058 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 2410525 | ||
| Website : | www.city.fortbragg.com | ||
Fort Bragg is a city with the status " City " in Mendocino County in the US state of California with 7,302 inhabitants (2014).
geography
The place is on the coast of the Pacific Ocean . At the southern edge of the Noyo River flows into Noyo Bay . Mendocino is twelve kilometers south , and 220 kilometers southeast of San Francisco . The California State Route 1 runs right through Fort Bragg.
history
The indigenous people of the area were Indians , who mainly belonged to the Pomo group . The Pomo were hunter-gatherers who lived along the northern California coast. In 1856 the Mendocino Indian reservation was established near Noyo.
In 1857 a military camp was built and the site was named in honor of the commander, Captain Braxton Bragg . Ten years later the camp was abandoned and several sawmills started operating. After the opening of a port facility and a railway line, the timber trade was further intensified. In 1889 the city was officially founded. In 1906, the San Francisco earthquake was a major earthquake that destroyed almost all stone houses. The subsequent fire also destroyed a large part of the wooden houses. After twelve months, however, the city was largely rebuilt and now benefited from the fact that large quantities of timber were needed to rebuild San Francisco , which was also badly damaged by the earthquake .
From 1916 vacationers and tourists came to the very attractive place. Up to the present day the tourism industry has grown steadily with new hotels, restaurants and offers for fishing, water sports and tours to the nearby national parks and to the impressive, very high coastal redwoods ( Sequoia sempervirens ) in the area.
Glass Beach
In the north of the city in were 20th century various waste, glass bottles and even car wrecks at one point over the cliffs into the sea thrown. It was not until 1967 that this practice was banned. Over the decades, the glass garbage was crushed by the ocean currents and made round by erosion. As a result, this stretch of beach is now littered with colored sea glass and is increasingly becoming a tourist attraction under the name Glass Beach .
View of Glass Beach
Partial view of Glass Beach with sea glass
Close up of the beach
Demographic data
In 2014 a population of 7,302 people was determined, who at that time had an average age of 38.4 years. Compared to the year 2000, the population has increased by 3.9%.
sons and daughters of the town
- Cornelius Vander Starr (1892–1968), entrepreneur
- James Cahill (1926–2014), art historian
- Jim Ross (* 1952), referee
Web links
- fortbragg / history / museums - museums