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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

SHOULD FORT BRAGG CA BE RENAMED ? "Vote on renaming California’s Fort Bragg ‘is the right move,’ Newsom says - Fort Bragg ..

  "Vote on renaming California's Fort Bragg 'is the right move,' Newsom says - Fort Bragg was established in 1857 when Horatio Gates Gibson, a lieutenant serving at the Presidio of San Francisco, established a military post to maintain control of the natives confined to the newly established Mendocino Indian Reservation. He named the camp after Bragg, who was his former commanding officer..."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Vote-on-renaming-California-s-Fort-Bragg-is-15345121.php