The Bodega Bay Anthology

Some good local history for you Relic Hunters out there. The collections have been merged and are for sale $150K.


http://bodegabaycollection.com/PDFS/ARTifactsBodegaBayPublished.pdf

That was a cool read

Amazing to see whose footprints you  are stepping in.

I really appreciate the post. In 1920 my grandparents purchased a couple of lots in Ocean View Estates, now known as Salmon Creek Village, just north of Bodega Bay and erected a cabin for summer use. Including the Marshall House built around the 1870's, maybe earlier, there were only a three other places built at that time. When Rose Gaffney moved from Bodega Bay to Salmon Creek a friendship was established with my grandparents and her and she allowed access to her Bodega Head property and to Horseshoe Cove, an absolute gem, to fish and abalone. They walked the length of Salmon Creek beach on low tides to get there.

Perhaps it was 1950, I'm six and my sister was four, when Rose picks us up from Grandma's in Salmon Creek in her rusted out old pickup and drives us first to Diekmans, the old Diekmans with the hotel that later burned down. We go inside and she buys us some candy and bubble gum then off to Horseshoe we go to walk the sand and wade the white granite sand beach. She points out the mounds as we go over the dirt track that later became Bay Flat road and says, Indians used to live there.

As I grew older and spent summers with grandma, a long way from parental restrictions, I would hike the beach to the Head often returning dead tired trudging with a sack of fish over soft sand to get back to the village. Wonderful days.

Often Rose would ask me in to her place to look at her collection of Indian artifacts. I was interested but not enthralled enough to ask more about her finds and how she found them and what they meant.

At the end, in the hospital, the medical staff placed tubes in Rose Gaffney telling her she needed them to live. She pulled them out and was dead in the morning.

I wasn't in on this conversation being too young but a couple of my great uncles who knew Rose well, were walking by her Salmon Creek house and saw Rose by her old pickup. A conversation was struck up and one of great uncles said to Rose, "Look at all the holes in your car Rose. I could poke a fist through some of big ones." To which Rose replies,"Holes, holes,holes! Is that all you men ever think of? You came out of a hole, you spend your whole life trying to get back in holes and you're going to be buried in a hole". I still think of her kindly.

That's cool Charles Rose was a strong women, I hope we have a chance to take a stroll sometime and you can show me the sights. Have you seen this? Pretty good little history.  http://www.bodeganet.com/landtrust/SC%20Estuary%20Appendices.pdf