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The railway was completed across the Scotia Bluffs to Alton, California on 20 August 1885 where connection was made with the Eel River and Eureka Railroad for the remainder of the distance to Humboldt Bay. Rails were extended southward up the Eel River from Scotia to bring logs into the sawmill.
Scotia, formerly known as Forestville until 1888, is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California. [5] [6] [2] It is located on the Eel River along U.S. Route 101, 8.5 miles (13.7 km) southeast of Fortuna and 244 miles (393 km) north of San Francisco. [5]
In 1892, Vance Lumber Company purchased the Humboldt Bay frontage from Samoa Land and Improvement Company for construction of a large sawmill. [1] Eureka and Klamath River Railroad was chartered in 1893 to connect the Samoa, CA sawmill and associated worker housing facilities to the city of Arcata and timberlands near the Mad River.
The sawmill was the first in Humboldt County to use a kiln for drying lumber. [5] The town was originally called North Fork, but was renamed Korbel in 1891 with the arrival of the post office. [ 2 ] The Korbel family sold their Mad River properties to the Northern Redwood Lumber Company in 1902.
The final dispensation of the bankruptcy, which had been ongoing since January 2007, began the transfer of PALCO's buildings, mill, and 210,000 acres (850 km 2) of Humboldt forest to MRC. The company town of Scotia and other properties were transferred to Marathon Structured Finance.
Their Dolbeer and Carson partnership built a standard gauge railroad from Bucksport south along the Elk River in 1885 to bring redwood logs 12 miles (19 km) from interior forests to a log dump on Humboldt Bay. [7] From the log dump, these logs could be floated to bayside sawmills. Three sawmills depended upon railroad deliveries by 1887. [8]
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake was recorded in Northern California, the United States Geological Survey said. ... a professor emeritus at Cal Poly Humboldt. Only two of those generated damage, the ...
Englewood (formerly Englevale) [2] is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. [1] It is located 0.5 miles (0.8 km) east-southeast of Redcrest, [2] at an elevation of 364 feet (111 m). [1] In 2009, the area was the site of a few homes and a derelict Eel River Sawmills mill.