Shake City is an archaic placename in Mendocino County, California.[1] It is located on the California Western Railroad 6.25 miles (10 km) west-northwest of Willits,[2] at an elevation of 528 feet (161 m).[1] Circa 1916, a kind of logging operation called a bark camp was located at or near Shake City.[3] For a handful of years in the mid-1930s, the settlement supported a Mendocino County baseball team called the Shake City Loggers.[4] During the Great Depression years there was enough activity at the logging camp that it attracted vagrants: one unemployed man was charged with robbing a cabin near Shake City,[5] and an "unknown tramp" walking from Fort Bragg was killed on the railroad tracks.[6] Famed forestry professor Emanuel Fritz photographed a 17 foot (5.2 m)-diameter redwood stump from a tree logged near Shake City.[7] There was a railroad tie production facility at Shake City in 1937.[8] The railroad trestle at Shake City burned in 1941 but was promptly repaired.[9] By 1960, Shake City was still a name on a map but its history was a mystery to a Petuluma newspaper columnist.[10] In 1967, Union Lumber Company owned timber stands near Shake City.[11]
Shake City | |
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 Shake City on a 1912 map of American mining districts | |
  Shake City Location in California  Shake City Shake City (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 39°25′52″N 123°28′02″W / 39.43111°N 123.46722°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Mendocino County |
| Elevation | 528 ft (161 m) |
References
edit- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Shake City, California
- ^ Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 141. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
- ^ "Aged Woodsman Dies from Shock". Fort Bragg Advocate and News. May 17, 1916. p. 1. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
- ^ "Team Standing". Mendocino Coast Beacon. July 28, 1934. p. 3. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
- ^ "Robbed Cabin at Shake City". Mendocino Coast Beacon. January 8, 1938. p. 1. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
- ^ "Tramp Killed on Railroad". Mendocino Coast Beacon. May 16, 1936. p. 1. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
- ^ Fritz, Emanuel; Photographer, Seventeen-foot redwood stump. Cut January 1933. Age 1500ł years. Moyo River, about 3/4 mile above railroad trestle over Redwood Creek and between Irmulco and Shake City, Mendocino County, California. Walter Ball (Logging Superintendent) to right, James L. Averell to his right. See also 5719. May 10, 1933. E. F, retrieved October 26, 2023
- ^ "Arvo A. Lyly". Ukiah Daily Journal. May 27, 2001. p. 2. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
- ^ "Railroad Bridge at Shake City Is Burned, Repaired". Santa Rosa Republican. May 31, 1941. p. 1. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
- ^ "Question and Answer Box". Petaluma Argus-Courier. December 10, 1960. p. 8. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
- ^ "50-Acre Willits Timber Fire Uncontrolled". The Press Democrat. July 12, 1967. p. 1. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
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