Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Posted on Mar 3, 2026
by Reg P. Wydeven
Charles Van Damme was a San Francisco businessman who ran a ferry business in the early 1900s. Using the profits from his successful enterprise, he purchased a parcel of land over 1,800 acres in size on the Mendocino Coast near Little River. When he died in 1934, he left it to the State of California […]