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Fort Bragg was founded in 1857 as a military garrison on the Mendocino Indian Reservation by First Lieutenant Horatio G. Gibson, who named it for his former commander, Captain Braxton Bragg.

Fort Bragg incorporated on August 5, 1889, and is designated California Historical Landmark No. 615; the last surviving fort building still stands at 430 North Franklin Street.

Long before the fort, the Fort Bragg area was home to the Pomo people, and the city sits on the Mendocino Coast about 24 miles west of Willits.

Fort Bragg had a population of 6,983 in the 2020 census, with 2,960 households averaging 2.31 people each.

Fort Bragg's famous Glass Beach is a former city dump site where decades of wave action tumbled discarded glass into smooth sea glass; it is now part of MacKerricher State Park, where removing the glass is illegal.

Fort Bragg is the western terminus of the California Western Railroad, the beloved 'Skunk Train,' which began hauling logs in 1885, started steam passenger service in 1904, and completed its redwood-forest line to Willits in 1911.

The Union Lumber Company, founded in 1885 as the Fort Bragg Redwood Company, dominated the local economy for over a century; its successor mill closed in 2002, and the roughly 400-acre coastal mill site is being redeveloped.

The 1906 earthquake and the fire that followed damaged every brick building in Fort Bragg - and local mills then supplied lumber to help rebuild San Francisco.

The Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens spread across 47 acres of ocean bluffs at Fort Bragg, and Pomo Bluffs Park protects the city's dramatic coastal headlands.

Fort Bragg has an exceptionally cool-summer Mediterranean climate: its all-time record high is only 91 degrees Fahrenheit (set October 5, 1987), it averages about 43 inches of rain a year, and snow has been recorded on only three days in its history.