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How Redwood Trees Build Mendocino

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How redwood trees helped build mendocino. mendocino is a small town a beautiful historic town on the pacific ocean. it is very popular with tourists. because of its ocean redwood forests and beautiful historic town and its wine. many people may wonder who this town came to be. And what shaped it into the town it is today. I Think it was the area's climate and geography great for redwoods wine grapes and a cool climate, and opened headlands right on the coast for tourists.
Mendocino was founded in 1850 After the shipwreck of the frolic . A man named jerome ford came to the area to forge what was left after the wreck. There he found the redwood trees.
After finding the redwood trees he returned to san francisco elling people of what he found

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