Table Bluff, California
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Table Bluff is a locality{{cite book |last= Durham |first= David L. |title= California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State |year= 1998 |publisher= Quill Driver Books |isbn= 978-1-884995-14-9 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Yfa0hmE7yocC |page= 154}} in Humboldt County, California. It is located adjacent to the Pacific Ocean {{convert|4.5|mi|km}} south of Fields Landing, at an elevation of {{convert|318|ft|m}}.{{GNIS|1702466|Table Bluff}}
History
The original hotel was built by pioneer Van Aerman in 1852.{{cite book|last1=Turner|first1=Dennis & Gloria|title=Place Names of Humboldt County, California|year=2010 |publisher=Dennis W. & Gloria H. Turner|location=Humboldt Room|isbn=9780962961724|page=229}}
File:Seth Kinman Table Bluff Hotel.jpg
A post office operated at Table Bluff from 1861 to 1862, from 1867 to 1868, from 1870 to 1891, for a time in 1892, and from 1900 to 1901. From 1892 to 1975 the Table Bluff Light was located on Table Bluff.{{cite book | last =O'Hara | first =Susan Pritchard |author2=Gregory Graves | title =Saving California's Coast: Army Engineers at Oceanside and Humboldt Bay | publisher = The Arthur H. Clark Company | date =21 August 1991 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/savingcalifornia00ohar/page/277 277] | isbn =9780870622014 | url =https://archive.org/details/savingcalifornia00ohar| url-access =registration | id = 978-0870622014}} Table Bluff Rancheria of the Wiyot people is located on Table Bluff.[https://web.archive.org/web/20130521151316/http://www.unitedindianhealthservices.org/about-uihs/table-bluff-reservation-wiyot-tribe "Table Bluff Reservation—Wiyot Tribe."] United Indian health Services. Retrieved 29 Sept 2013.
Gospel Outreach was a Christian community that was situated at Table Bluff on "Lighthouse Ranch" located on a former Coast Guard Station.{{cite web|url=http://goalumni.homestead.com/Lighthouse.html|title=Lighthouse|work=homestead.com|access-date=28 May 2015}} From 1971 to the late 1980s many young people from the Jesus movement lived at the ranch.{{cite web|url=http://www.newstracts.org/thelord%27sland.html|title=The Lord's Land|work=newstracts.org|access-date=28 May 2015}}
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Notable residents
Seth Kinman ran the hotel/bar at Table Bluff for many years as well as owning a home there.{{cite news
| title = SETH KINMAN.; THE PACIFIC COAST NIMROD WHO GIVES CHAIRS TO PRESIDENTS | work = New York Times | pages = 10 | date = December 9, 1885
| url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A06E7DD1F39E533A2575AC0A9649D94649FD7CF | access-date = November 25, 2008}} He and his family are buried in the Table Bluff Cemetery.
See also
- {{portal-inline|California}}
References
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