Close by the Inn is Herrin's Museum. His building was constructed in 1937. Charles Beach and Edward Hole came to Moonstone area in 1865 after the Civil War. His son Bob Beach, now 83, told of his father mentioning that bodies & debris from the Brother Jonathan wrecked at Pt. St. George washed up on the beach for weeks. He noted the deep pools along the 101 highway east of Clam Beach were dug by dredges seeking gold. Charles Hill, Harry Close and Paddy Levec ran a mine along there in 1896. They ran it for several years, using water from Patricks Creek to sluice the sand they pumped from those holes. It was a fine flour gold & they used settling tanks and astrakhan cloth to catch it. Sam Merryman's father Hiram, started the first store at Moonstone in 1907. Between 1907-1910 the railroad ran excursion trains to Little River beach from Luffenholtz & Fieldbrook, In 1912 Norman Smith dividad 37 acres into cabin sites for people from Redding - Red Bluff. he is living there now & is 91 yrs old. Sam says Princess Rock is really called Medicine Rock & was used as a special place by Indian medicine men from the nearby village at the mouth of Little River. Developer W.L. Townsend subdivision WestHaven in 1932. Today(1949) Moonstone Beach has a popul. of about 300, most of who came since 1946. R.E. Hawley came to Moonstone in 1938 from Porterville & built the Howleywood Heights gift shop & related buildings.