Port Kenyon, California
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Port Kenyon is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located northwest of Ferndale, at an elevation of 13 feet (4 m). A post office operated at Port Kenyon from 1886 to 1899 and from 1903 to 1913. The town was founded by John Gardner Kenyon in 1876. After silting of the Salt River and repeated flooding, the port declined in the 1890s.


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Salt River (California) The Salt River is a formerly navigable hanging channel of the Eel River which flowed about from near Fortuna and Waddington, California, to the estuary at the Pacific Ocean, until siltation from logging and agricultural practices essentially c ...


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Unincorporated communities in Humboldt County, California Unincorporated communities in California {{HumboldtCountyCA-geo-stub