Pomo, California

It is named after a village of the Pomo people.{{citation |last=Kroeber |first=Alfred L. |title=California place names of Indian origin |url=http://soda.sou.edu/awdata/030731c1.pdf |journal=University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=31–69 |year=1916 |url-status=dead |author-link=Alfred L. Kroeber |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720045733/http://soda.sou.edu/awdata/030731c1.pdf |archivedate=2011-07-20}}. The village was first described by George Gibbs in 1851 in his Journal of the Expedition of Colonel Redick M'Kee, United States Indian Agent, through Northwestern California.{{Cite web |title=The ethno-geography of the Pomo and neighboring Indians, by S.A. Barrett. v.6:1-3 (1908). |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044042148700?urlappend=%3Bseq=150 |access-date=2023-11-01 |website=HathiTrust |pages=140–141 |language=en}} The indigenous people of Potter Valley were labeled the Pomo Pomos, distinguishing them from Castel Pomos, Ki Pomos, Cahto Pomos, Choam Chadela Pomos, Matomey Ki Pomos, Usal Pomos, Shebalue Pomos, et al.{{Cite news |date=1882-11-10 |title=Hubert Howe Bancroft |pages=3 |work=Ukiah Dispatch Democrat |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/ukiah-dispatch-democrat-hubert-howe-banc/134429138/ |access-date=2023-11-01}} This village, spelled pō'mō in a 1908 ethnographic report, stood on the east bank of the Russian River just south of the post office. At the time of the report, the Potter Valley gristmill stood on the site.

A post office operated at Pomo from 1870 to 1871, from 1872 to 1881, and from 1882 to 1911. A store opened at Pomo in 1874. Circa 1875, there was a school with 34 enrolled students, as well as a Pomo Grange with 75 members and a Templars lodge that met weekly at "the Hall".{{Cite news |date=1875-02-06 |title=Pomo Letters |pages=3 |work=Ukiah Dispatch Democrat |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/ukiah-dispatch-democrat-pomo-letters/134428820/ |access-date=2023-11-01}} There was a monthly church meeting at Pomo in the 1880s.{{Cite book |last=Palmer |first=Lyman L. |year=1880 |title=History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber |location=San Francisco |publisher=Alley, Bowen |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31210012802938?urlappend=%3Bseq=607 |access-date=2023-11-01 |via=HathiTrust |pages=499 (church), 562 (store) |language=en}}

In 1881 a pack of timber wolves had been killing domestic sheep near Pomo.{{Cite news |date=1881-03-05 |title=From our county exchanges |pages=3 |work=Mendocino Coast Beacon |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/mendocino-coast-beacon-from-our-county-e/134429505/ |access-date=2023-11-01}} There still was a school at Pomo in 1892,{{Cite news |date=1892-12-30 |title=Apportionment of County Funds |pages=3 |work=Ukiah Daily Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/ukiah-daily-journal-apportionment-of-cou/134429441/ |access-date=2023-11-01}} but by 1904 it had notably low enrollment.{{Cite news |date=1904-09-23 |title=Potter Valley News |pages=5 |work=Ukiah Dispatch Democrat |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/ukiah-dispatch-democrat-potter-valley-ne/134429647/ |access-date=2023-11-01}} In the 1950s, the Pomo Athletic Club supported a league basketball team.{{Cite web |title=Ukiah Daily Journal 29 Dec 1950, page Page 8 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1219419/ |access-date=2023-11-01 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}

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