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| Landmark #883 | Humboldt County | Visited: May 9, 2012 | Plaque? YES! 🙂 |
| What is it? | A plaque in a charming white gazebo in town! |
| What makes it historical? | THE GUIDE SAYS: This pioneer agricultural community, settled in 1852, helped feed the booming population of mid-century San Francisco. Long known as “cream city,” Ferndale made innovative and lasting contributions to the dairy industry. Local creameries, and the town’s role as a transportation and shipping center in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, fostered prosperity that produced Ferndale’s outstanding Victorian-Gothic residential and false-front commercial architecture.
OTHER TIDBITS: Some of the famous firsts of the dairy industry, as innovated by the farmers of Ferndale, include the first sweet cream butter, butter wrapping and cutting machines, dry-milk processing (on the Pacific Coast), milk tank truck, cooperative creameries, and cow testing program (in California)! It is also the place where A. Jensen and C.E. Gray developed the technique for producing “dry milk,” and where David Peebles patented a new food dehydration process (not dairy, but still interesting)! This landmark is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places! |
| How can I Help the Helpers? | HERE’S HOW:
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| Where is this place? | LISTED DIRECTIONS: Ferndale City Hall Park Intersection of Main and Herbert Sts Ferndale, CA 95536 ANNOTATIONS: From Los Angeles: ~640mi (1030km) — 10.7hrs |
| When should I go? | Whenever the mood strikes you! |
