IN THE EARLY DAYS of Mendocino, the area east of what is now Highway 1 was known as “East Mendocino,” a community with its own characteristics and infrastructure. The town began two miles east of where the highway runs today and spread from the north fork of Big River in the south to Russian Gulch in the north. The community’s size peaked between 1910 and 1935. Longtime East Mendocino resident Bertha Reep Mason recalled that East Mendocino had “…
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