Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum

The Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum is located in Samoa, California, a small town across Humboldt Bay from Eureka. The focus of the museum is the preservation and interpretation of its collection of artifacts, photographs, library archives and materials which relate principally to the maritime history of California's North Coast.

Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Carson Mansion and Carter House Inn.

Carson Mansion

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The Carson Mansion is a large Victorian house, constructed from 1884 to 1886 and located in Old Town, Eureka, California. Regarded as one of the premier examples of Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, the house is "considered the most grand… Carson Mansion is situated 450 feet west of Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum.

Carter House Inn

Hotel

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The Carter House Inn is a hotel in Old Town Eureka, California. It is known both for housing Restaurant 301 and for being a replica of a Queen Anne style building by Newsom and Newsom, renowned builder architects of many 19th-century structures in California. Carter House Inn is situated 990 feet southwest of Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum.

Arkley Center for the Performing Arts

Theater building

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Arkley Center for the Performing Arts is a theater building, which is situated 2,700 feet southwest of Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eureka and Samoa.

Eureka

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Eureka is a city in Humboldt County, California. With a population of slightly over 25,000, it is the largest coastal city on the West Coast of the United States north of San Francisco and south of Portland and the center of the California North Coast.

Samoa

Hamlet

Photo: Ellin Beltz, Public domain.

Samoa is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California, United States. It is located 1.5 miles northwest of Eureka, at an elevation of 23 feet. Samoa is situated 2 miles northwest of Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum.

Myrtletown

Village

Myrtletown is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California, United States. Myrtletown lies at an elevation of 112 feet. Myrtletown is a part of the Eureka, California metropolitan area. Myrtletown is situated 2 miles southeast of Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum.

Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum

Type: Museum
Description: Maritime museum in Samoa, California
Categories: maritime museum, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Humboldt County, North Coast, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.80596° or 40° 48′ 22″ north

Longitude

-124.15673° or 124° 9′ 24″ west

Elevation

26 feet (8 metres)

Open location code

84GQRR4V+98

GeoNames ID

5565507

Wikidata ID

Q5940256

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