Whole page of photos & text on Freshwater. There are photos of the Freshwater Corners School, the swimming hole at Freshwater county park showing the bleaches, diving platform, concrete wall, the exotic Jack Fairhurst residence, the old Garfield School, the entrance to the Freshwater picnic grounds, the Dr. Gene Falk home. The pool at Freshwater County Park was a pet project of Supervision George Cole who took office in 1922. Two men who know the history of Freshwater are Jake Buchholzer (retired NWP conduder) and Harold Cover. His father Alex came to Freshwater in 1880 & opened the town's 1st store. Jake was brought to Freshwater in 1888 when his father went to work on the Excelsior Lumber Company's logging railroad. Logging commenced around Freshwater Corners in 1860. The logs were drugged to Freshwater Slough by OX teams & flooted to the company mill on Eureka Slough a little above the 101 bridge. In the latter 1870's the company started its logging railroad. In the early 1880's, Pat McLain of Eureka built a store there & a hotel. Cont. on p. 20 Freshwater was never a company town. It was started by David Evans. The original owner was David McGeorge & he sold it off in lot. Excelsior had 3 camps with 80-100/each at the peak of operations. The first rock for the Humboldt bay Jetties was hauled from the Graham and MccReady Gulches in Freshwater canyon. The railroad took it down to Ryan Slough where it was put on barges & towed across the bay. In 1893 came the panic & Excelsior shut down. In 1901 PL bought Excelsior holdings & its railroad & later built their shops & houses in the lower valley near Freshwater Corners. In 1906 the Freshwater operations shut down & did not reopen until 1919. From 1919-1941 they logged continually until all the original old growth timber was gone. Then they tore open their buildings & railroad & left. PL still owns a lot of land their with 2nd growth redwood. The present Kneeland road was built on logs by George Pinkerton around 1900, but the original one from Old Arcata road was built about 1892.