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Would-be salvagers discovered giant redwood trees, and lumber mills soon sprang up at the mouth of every stream.
In 1850, an opium trader carrying goods from the Orient to gold-rush San Francisco shipwrecked near Fort Bragg.
In the early 1800s, that area was visited by Russian, English, and French fur trappers.
Coastal California north of San Francisco had been home to the Pomo and Yuki people for thousands of years.
In 1857, Fort Bragg was an Army post on the Mendocino Indian Reservation