Bucksport, California
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Bucksport was a town in Humboldt County, California, United States. The original location was 2.5 miles southwest of downtown Eureka, on Humboldt Bay, approximately 5 miles northeast of the entrance a
Bucksport is now a part of Eureka, California.
Josiah Gregg
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Josiah Gregg was an American merchant, explorer, naturalist, and author of Commerce of the Prairies, about the American Southwest and parts of northern Mexico. He collected many previously undescribed
Bucksport, California
…Prior to American settlement a Wiyot village named Kucuwalik stood here. The townsite was laid out in 1850 by David A. Buck, who was a member of the Josiah Gregg party that explored the bay in 1849. A post office operated at Bucksport from 1855 to 1863. Fort Humboldt was founded on the bluff over Bucksport in…
Josiah Gregg
The frontispiece and title page of Commerce of the Prairies
Ceanothus greggii is one of many species named after Josiah Gregg.
Pinus greggii is also named after Josiah Gregg.