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Read
the history of Stanford Inn
"When
we came here twenty-three years ago we had no idea
the twists and turns our lives would take,"
recounted Jeff Stanford who with his wife and partner,
Joan, are owner-innkeepers of the Stanford Inn by
the Sea in Mendocino. "We had fallen in love
with Mendocino as so many others," Joan added,
"but never expected to live here."
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continued
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Big
River - A History - The Story of Two Villages
Buldam and Mendocino
In
2001 a lone skiff moved between crab pots set in
the mouth
of Big River. Few salmon made their joyous death
trek to the remnants of spawning beds. Steelhead
no longer flashed in their busy explorations of
the estuary. Below the dock at Catch A Canoe, only
an occasional bullhead darted under the shadows
of kayaks.
Nearly
150 years before, Nathaniel Smith, who was a black
teenager according to some accounts or a middle
aged man in others, settled just below what is today's
Stanford Inn after having sold his cabin on what
is now property of the Mendocino Hotel in town.
(full
story and photos)
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