Iaqua - follow a line east from Centerville - on an 1866 map
Camp or Fort Iaqua, a military post operational from August 5, 1863, to 1866 was located on Yeager Creek about 18 miles east of the mouth of the Eel River,[2] is located on Iaqua Creek 4 miles (6.4 km) south-southeast of Iaqua.[1]
The Jaqua post office opened in 1880, and changed its name to Iaqua later that year.[1] The post office closed in 1903, re-opened in 1909, and closed for good in 1920.[1]
As of 1873, a school was in operation at Iaqua.[3] It later merged with the Kneeland School.[3]
Referencesedit
^ abcdeDurham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 89. ISBN1-884995-14-4.
^Colonel Herbert M. Hart, USMC (retired), Historic California Posts: Fort Iaqua (Camp Jaqua, Camp Iaqua), Pioneer Forts of the Far West, The California State Military Museum, 1965
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