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We would like to provide the residents of  Loleta  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Loleta Home page. The Loleta Home page provides as much information as possible on Loleta. Knowing Loleta’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Loleta’s Home page, you will also find Loleta’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Loleta has a population of 599. 46.1% of Loleta’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.9 are female. 33.3% of Loleta is married and 44.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $318,230, and the average rent is $845. Household median income in Loleta is $38,807, and the individual median income is $33,889. Loleta’s Ethnic is the following: White(85.1%), Hispanic(11.9%), Other(6.2%), Black(4.3%), Multiple(3.2%), Asian(0.7%), Native(0.5%).


European settlement began in the early 1850s although Wiyot people had inhabited the area for generations. Potato farming was the biggest agricultural use of land until the 1870s, when depleted soil and declining prices caused a turn to dairying. The town was originally known as Swauger or Swauger's Station, for local landowner Samuel A.


Swauger.The town was renamed Loleta in 1897. The name was reported to mean "pleasant place at the end of the tide water" in the language of the original Wiyot native inhabitants, although this is apparently contradicted linguistically as well as by a hearsay account from the 1950s, made notorious by a National Geographic blog post.


However, a 1918 list of place names collected by Kroeber and Waterman two years after Kroeber's 1916 publication shows that the trail from Table Bluff along the peak of that feature was named "lalōekā".The Eel River and Eureka Railroad reached Swauger's Station from Humboldt Bay in 1883. The Swauger post office opened in 1888, and changed its name to Loleta in 1898.


The Humboldt Creamery plant (originally Diamond Springs Creamery, eventually a co-operative of the Golden State Creamery) opened in the town proper in 1893, and dairying continues to be a major economic influence. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reorganized Loleta's railroad as the San Francisco and Northwestern Railway in 1903 and then completed the Northwestern Pacific Railroad to San Francisco in 1914.


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