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Whitesboro was an
unincorporated community
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in Mendocino County
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, California
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. It was located south-southeast of Albion
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, at an elevation of 39 feet (12 m).
The name was bestowed in 1876 after L. E. White, the major owner of the Salmon Creek Mill Company. A post office operated at Whitesboro from 1881 to 1899. Almost no trace of the former sawmill town remains as of 2010, but there is still a functioning Whitesboro Grange hall located on nearby Navarro Ridge Road.
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