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


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

Moss Landing has a population of 31. 48.4% of Moss Landing’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.6 are female. 67.7% of Moss Landing is married and 100% own their own home. Moss Landing’s Ethnic is the following: White(100%), Hispanic(38.7%).


The earliest residents of the Moss Landing/Elkhorn Slough area were the Ohlone people. Evidence from archaeological digs show that they may have lived here as long ago as 4,000 years. The Spanish forced the Ohlone into the mission system in the 1700s from which few survived. "A total of 81,000 Indians were baptized and 60,000 deaths were recorded." After the mission system was secularized, the Spanish government granted vast ranchos to soldiers and others with connections, including the 30,901-acre (125.05 km2) Rancho Bolsa Nueva y Moro Cojo.


This grant extended from Moss Landing to present-day Prunedale and south to Castroville.They farmed the land and ran cattle over the nearby hills. Americans arrived in the mid-1800s and farmers turned the area into cropland.In the early 1860s Charles Moss, a Texas ship captain, established with the help of a partner a landing and wharf to handle the emerging grain trade in the Salinas Valley.William B.


Post earned a reputation as a skilled bear and deer hunter in the Big Sur region, and he traded in hides and buckskin. This work drew him north to Moss Landing. Post opened one of the first grain warehouses along the coast at Moss Landing. Flat bottom boats brought grain from all over the Salinas Valley to Elkhorn Slough and unloaded at Post's warehouse.


W.B. became an agent for the steamship company of Goodall, Nelson and Perkins. The success of the shipping point stimulated the growth of Castroville, one of Monterey County's first municipalities, which served to support Moss Landing commerce.The location was initially named "Moss", after Charles Moss.


The Moss post office opened in 1895 and in 1917 changed its name to "Moss Landing". It became a busy whaling and fishing port and a location for fish processing plants and canneries. The Moss Landing Harbor District, established in the 1940s, dredged channels and built piers. The Moss Landing Power Plant opened in 1950.


The California State University system founded Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in 1966 (it was rebuilt nearby after the Loma Prieta Earthquake destroyed the facility in 1989), and in the mid-1990s the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute was moved to Moss Landing from Pacific Grove. In the 1980s, then-Monterey County Supervisor Marc Del Piero secured millions of dollars in federal grants to cure historic and chronic water pollution issues and sanitary sewers were installed.


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