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Eureka ( Wiyot: Jaroujiji, [16] Hupa: dahwilahł-ding, [17] [18] Karuk: uuth [19]) is a city and the county seat of Humboldt County, located on the North Coast of California. The city is located on U.S. Route 101 on the shores of Humboldt Bay, 270 miles (435 km) north of San Francisco and 100 miles (161 km) south of the Oregon border. [20]
Old Town Eureka (formally the Eureka Old Town Historic District) in Eureka, California, is a historic district listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. It is a 350-acre (1.4 km 2) area containing 154 buildings mostly from the Victorian era. The core of the district runs the length of First, Second, and Third Streets ...
Carson Mansion. / 40.80562; -124.15848. The Carson Mansion is a large Victorian house located in Old Town, Eureka, California. Regarded as one of the premier examples of Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, [2] : 33 the house is "considered the most grand Victorian home in America." [3] It is one of the most written about and ...
Fort Humboldt State Historic Park is a California state park, located in Eureka, California, United States.Its displays interpret the former U.S. Army fort, which was staffed from 1853–1870, the interactions between European Americans and Native Americans in roughly the same period, logging equipment and local narrow gauge railroad history of the region.
Humboldt Bay ( Wiyot: Wigi) [3] is a natural bay [4] and a multi-basin, bar-built coastal lagoon [5] located on the rugged North Coast of California, entirely within Humboldt County, United States. It is the largest protected body of water on the West Coast between San Francisco Bay and Puget Sound, the second-largest enclosed bay in California ...
Alameda Island. 37°45′55″N 122°14′30″W. / 37.76528°N 122.24167°W / 37.76528; -122.24167 ( Alameda Island) Alameda, San Francisco (small, uninhabited sliver) This 6-mile (9.7 km) long island in San Francisco Bay is the main part of the City of Alameda . Alcatraz Island. 37°49′36″N 122°25′24″W.
Eureka High School or EHS, formerly Eureka Senior High School, is a public high school in Eureka, California.EHS is the only regular public high school serving the City of Eureka and all of its contiguous unincorporated neighborhoods, several adjacent unincorporated communities, and related independent elementary school districts, which, altogether, comprise the Eureka Unified High School ...
Eureka. California historical coat of arms (illustrated, 1876) The Great Seal of the State of California was adopted at the California state Constitutional Convention of 1849 and has undergone minor design changes since then, the last being the standardization of the seal in 1937. The seal shows Athena in Greek mythology, the goddess of wisdom ...