Shake City, California facts for kids

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Unincorporated community
Shake City on a 1912 map of American mining districts
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Country	United States
State	California
County	Mendocino County
Elevation	528 ft (161 m)

Shake City is an archaic placename in Mendocino County, California. It is located on the California Western Railroad 6.25 miles (10 km) west-northwest of Willits, at an elevation of 528 feet (161 m). Circa 1916, a kind of logging operation called a bark camp was located at or near Shake City. For a handful of years in the mid-1930s, the settlement supported a Mendocino County baseball team called the Shake City Loggers. During the Great Depression years there was enough activity at the logging camp that it attracted vagrants: one unemployed man was charged with robbing a cabin near Shake City, and an "unknown tramp" walking from Fort Bragg was killed on the railroad tracks. Famed forestry professor Emanuel Fritz photographed a 17 foot (5.2 m)-diameter redwood stump from a tree logged near Shake City. There was a railroad tie production facility at Shake City in 1937. The railroad trestle at Shake City burned in 1941 but was promptly repaired. By 1960, Shake City was still a name on a map but its history was a mystery to a Petuluma newspaper columnist. In 1967, Union Lumber Company owned timber stands near Shake City.