Historic California
Posts, Camps, Stations and Airfields
Lighthouse Point
Post
Company I, 2nd Infantry, commanded by
Captain Edward R. Theller, on orders dated August 1, 1864, was
directed to take his troups to Lighthouse Point on the Samoa
Peninsula, Humboldt Bay, in HumboldtCounty, to guard Indian prisoners
kept there awaiting disposition. Another source indicated that
the post was occupied in 1865.
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