The enchanting "Victorian Village" of Ferndale in the Eel River Valley is designated a "Distinctive Destination" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is a California Historical Landmark. Named by its founders; the Shaw brothers; to honor the six-foot-tall ferns that once choked the thickly forested valley floor; the town became a vital center for goods bound by water for San Francisco and a crossroads for stages to Eureka and Bear River. For many years after the Shaws first paddled their canoe across the Eel River in 1852; travelers forded it by ferry. This changed when Fernbridge was constructed in 1911; at that time the longest reinforced concrete-arch span bridge in the world.
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