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Register of the Fountain Humboldt County History Collection,
1850-1903
Mss65
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Title: Fountain Humboldt County History Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1850-1903
Collection number: Mss65
Creator:
Susie Baker Fountain
Extent: 0.75 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Fountain Humboldt County History Collection,
Mss65, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the
Pacific Library
Humboldt County was formed in 1853 from Trinity County. It lies on the
northwestern coast of California and contains Cape Mendocino, the westernmost
point of mainland Unites States outside Alaska. The county has three principal
rivers, the Klamath, the Eel and the Trinity, as well as three major bays,
Trinidad, Arcata and Humboldt. Gold mining flourished in the heavily forested
county during the 1850s and 1860s, and, as a result, there were many battles
with local Indians, culminating in the massacre of 1860. These altercations led
to the establishment of Fort Humboldt (1853) and the creation of the state's
largest Indian reservation at Hoopa Valley. For the past one hundred
twenty-five years lumbering has been the principal industry of the region. The
County Seat is Eureka (1856).
This is a narrative history of Humboldt County (1850-1903), published
serially in the Blue Lake Advocate, (1964), and collected in an unbound
scrapbook by the author, Susie Baker Fountain. The collection also includes
letters written (1903-04) by Eleanor E. Tracy, a Humboldt Co. schoolteacher,
that were compiled and annotated for publication in the Blue Lake Advocate,
(1964), by Harriet T. DeLong.