Mendocino County
History
History of Mendocino County California - Alley, Bowen & Co., San Francisco, 1880
MANCHESTER.
This is a small hamlet lying a few miles up the coast from Point Arena, and consists of a blacksmith shop, a store, school-house, Methodist Episcopal church, and a very few dwelling houses. The school-house and church buildings are certainly both very creditable, and show to good advantage what sort of a spirit prompts the hearts of the people who reside in that vicinity.
LANDINGS AND CHUTES.—Between Gualala and Point Arena, there are six chutes and landings. Going northward from the former place, Bourn's Landing is the first one met with. The right to construct and maintain a wharf and one or more chutes at this point was granted to Morton Bourn by the State, February 22, 1870 ; the franchise was of twenty years' duration. A strip of land three hundred feet wide was granted to him for the purposes of business, adjacent to the chute or wharf. The Gualala Mill Company have a chute at this place, which they constructed in. 1872, but it was washed away in 1878 by the high seas, and again rebuilt that year.
The right to construct, maintain and use a wharf at Fishing Rock, in the county of Mendocino, was granted to Mart T. Smith, his associates and assigns, for the term of fifteen years, May 13, 1861. The right to use a space two hundred feet wide, beginning at low water and extending to water deep enough for the purposes of navigation was granted also.
The franchise for a landing and chute at Fish Rock was granted to William S. Ferguson, February 27, 1870, to extend for twenty years. This place is known locally as Ferguson's Cove, and in all coast surveys as Haven's Anchorage. It seems that a commander of a Government coast surveying vessel by the name of Haven anchored in this bight for a few days, several years ago, and he gave it the name of Haven's Anchorage, and it is known on
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.