Why Did Climate And Geography Build Mendocino

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How Climate and Geography Helped Build Mendocino Mendocino is a small, beautiful historic town on the Pacific Ocean. It is very popular with tourists, but how did it make its name? Could it be because of its climate and geographical advantages, giving it the Pacific Ocean, redwood forests and its wine? Many people may wonder how this town came to be and what shaped it into the town it is today. One of the advantages of its climate and geography were the redwoods. Mendocino was founded in 1850 after the shipwreck of the Frolic. A man named Jerome Ford came to the area to forage what was left after the wreck. In Mendocino, he may not have found treasure from the shipwreck, but he found something just as good, if not better on the land: