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History of Elkhorn Slough

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1919
– In January, a whaling station is opened just north of the Moss Landing Pier. The whales are made into soap and food for WW1, but the whale population is already low, and the plant closes in 1926. J.F. Davenport had earlier used the area for shore whaling.

A whale is pulled into the structure to be flensed, or stripped of blubber (below).



Whale bones were stacked on the beach - the stench, they say, carried for miles.


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