Elk, Mendocino County, California
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Geography
It is located Script error: No such module "convert". south of Fort Bragg,[2] at an elevation of 135 feet (41 m).[1]
Elk has a population of 208. It is located on the coast at the crossroads of State Route 1 and Philo-Greenwood Road. Albion, Little River, and Mendocino lie to the north, and Manchester and Point Arena to the south. Inland are Navarro, Philo, and Boonville.
History
Elk was originally called "Greenwood," after the Greenwood brothers,[2] early homesteaders and sons of mountain man Caleb Greenwood and his half-Crow wife, one of the rescuers of the Donner Party. When the post office was opened, in 1887,[2] there was already another Greenwood in California so it was called Elk Post Office. Eventually the name came to refer to the town. It is an outgrowth of an earlier town called Cuffy's Cove and the cemetery is located at that townsite Script error: No such module "convert". north of Elk. When pioneer lumberman Lorenzo White was unable to reach a satisfactory deal with the owners of the lumber chutes at Cuffy's Cove to ship out his redwood product, he constructed a wharf out along a string of rocks in the center of what is now Elk. When he built a large steam sawmill and Script error: No such module "convert". gauge railroad, the new employment drained the town of Cuffy's Cove, which was eventually abandoned. The sawmill was producing Script error: No such module "convert". of lumber per day by 1890. The mill was sold to Goodyear Redwood Company in 1916. Elk River Company took over the sawmill when Goodyear went bankrupt in 1932. The local redwood lumber industry economy collapsed when the uninsured sawmill burned in 1936.[3]
A new sawmill was built c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and another followed in 1963. These operated until the late 1960s, when the redwood and Douglas fir was mostly logged out (which means that the ancient trees big enough to be thought of as more valuable dead than alive had been killed). After some quiet times, the town has had a rebirth[4] as a recreation destination particularly as a result of the pandemic with people wanting to get out of the urban areas.[5] A couple of the larger old houses are now bed and breakfast inns, and the state has acquired Greenwood State Beach and the original mill site as a state park. The ZIP Code is 95432. The community is inside area code 707.
Elk Logging Railway locomotives
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| Number | Builder | Type | Date | Works number | Notes |
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| Baldwin Locomotive Works | 4-4-0 | 1873 | 3495 | originally North Pacific Coast Railroad #1; purchased 1876; scrapped 1903[6] | |
| 1 | Lima Locomotive Works | Shay geared | 9 May 1903 | 800 | built for L.E.White Lumber Company[7] |
| 2 | Lima Locomotive Works | Shay geared | 8 December 1904 | 957 | built for L.E.White Lumber Company[7] |
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| 4 | Lima Locomotive Works | Shay geared | 27 October 1917 | 2942 | built for Goodyear Redwood Company[7] |
Government
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In the United States House of Representatives, Elk is in Template:Representative.[9]
References
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External links
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- Populated coastal places in California
- Unincorporated communities in California
- Unincorporated communities in Mendocino County, California
- Defunct California railroads
- Logging railroads in the United States
- 1887 establishments in California