Whole page by Chet on Mckinleyville / Arcata Airport and Dows Prairie. Photos of the Tom Baird home; Airway Heights Motel; Airway Heights home (Kjer Rd houses ?) ; Dows Prairie School; Ed Hansen hilltop home. There are 70 pupils now at the school. Theron Worth was born in Dows Prairie. He's 71. There's been a school at Dows Prairie for over 75 years according to the records. Old timers = Dow & whole homesteaded where the airport is; Ed Norton; Stoele family; Pryor Underwood; Jim McEnerney; John Connelly; Alfred Barnes. Dows Prairie never had a store- we went to Mckin. Tom Baird says. Dows Prairie proper is where the airport sits now. This upper part is Strawberry Prairie. The hill section you see in back of here was logged off by Carson's and the CA Barrell Company between 1906 to 1916.