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4,947
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$49,908
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America/Los_Angeles
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Lakeport, CA - History
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Welcome to the Lakeport Home page. The Lakeport Home page provides as much information as possible on Lakeport. Knowing Lakeport’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Lakeport’s Home page, you will also find Lakeport’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Lakeport has a population of 4947. 44.6% of Lakeport’s inhabitants are Male, and 55.4 are female. 45.4% of Lakeport is married and 67% own their own home. The Average Home price is $285,247, and the average rent is $753. Household median income in Lakeport is $49,908, and the individual median income is $23,718. Lakeport’s Ethnic is the following: White(77.4%), Hispanic(20.6%), Other(6.9%), Native(5.6%), Asian(5%), Multiple(3.6%), Black(1.5%).
Former names include Forbestown, Rocky Point, Stony Point, Tuckertown, and Kaci-Badon. Lakeport was first settled by American Indians several thousand years ago. At the coming of the settlers, the Kabe-napos, a subtribe of the Pomo people, lived here within their main village. The village name was Kaci-Badon, after the water lily plant Kaci, and badon, which was the native name for 'island'.The first business in Lakeport was established in 1855, trading goods to the local Indians in exchange for their wares and baskets.
The business was run by a man named Johnson, but he did not have a store location. The first shop built in the Lakeport area was constructed by Dr. Boynton. It was William Forbes and James Parrish, however, who created the first shop in the main Lakeport area. Parish was a blacksmith and Forbes was a wagon maker.
Forbes was also a pioneer undertaker. It was this investment as well as the land grant Forbes bestowed upon the county, which earned Lakeport its first name: Forbestown. William Forbes came to the area in 1858. He purchased 160 acres (0.6 km2) on which to build his home and farm. When the county was investigating land to put the local county seat, Forbes offered 40 acres (160,000 m2) of his property on which they could build the county office.
The electorate thanked Forbes for his generosity by naming the town after him. Although the town no longer bears his name, other landmarks still retain their name association to the late William Forbes. On June 14, 1861, Forbestown was officially changed to Lakeport. Some locations still bear the Forbes name, however, such as Forbes Creek and Forbes Street. In 1850, Captain Nathaniel Lyon led an attack in the Bloody Island Massacre.
Lyon later died fighting for the Union in the Civil War.The first post office, called Big Valley, opened at the site in 1858, and changed its name to Lakeport in 1861.The first Lakeport courthouse was built of wood in 1861. The building burnt under suspicious circumstances in 1867. In 1864, the Cache Creek Dam was built.
Four years later, the locals tore down the dam and destroyed the mills it helped operate, after waters diverted by the dam flooded most of Lower Lake and Anderson Ranch.In 1872, a sighting of the legendary "Monster of Blue Lakes" or "Devil Fish" caused Indians from all around to gather at Temescal to await an expected calamity. In 1882, Black Bart robbed the stage traveling between Lakeport and Cloverdale.
During this time period, over 450 Chinese immigrants were employed to work the area's quicksilver mines. In 1883, William "Digger" Jones was hanged at Lakeport jail. He was wrongfully hanged two days after the sheriff had received the pardon for William "Digger" Jones. In 1888, Lakeport was incorporated.
For nearly a century, it was the only incorporated city in Lake County. In 1892, Lakeport got its first telephone.
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