Editing Bodega Bay, California (section)

==History==
[[File:Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Bodega Bay is named after [[Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra]], who explored [[Bodega Bay]] in 1775.]]
Bodega Bay is the site of the first Russian structures built in California, which were erected in 1809 by Commerce Counseller [[Ivan Kuskov|Ivan Alexandrovich Kuskov]] of the [[Russian-American Company]] in the lead-up to the establishment of [[Fort Ross]]. The Russians named the Bodega Bay settlement '''Port Rumyantsev''' after the Russian Foreign Minister [[Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantsev]], and it served as a port to support Fort Ross and the larger Russian community known as Colony Ross.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.fortrossstatepark.org/Russian%20American%20Company.htm|title= Outpost of an Empire: Russian Expansion To America|last= Watrous|first= Steven|year= 2001|work= Fort Ross|publisher= Fort Ross Interpretive Association|access-date= 2009-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last= Schwartz|first= Harvey|title= Readings in California Civilization|editor= Howard DeWitt|publisher= Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.|year= 1989|chapter= Fort Ross: Historic Russian Fort in California|chapter-url= https://www.ohlone.edu/instr/english/elc/engl163/fortross.html|access-date= February 25, 2009|archive-date= May 25, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170525050012/https://www.ohlone.edu/instr/english/elc/engl163/fortross.html|url-status= dead}}</ref>

The town is now named in honor of [[Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra]], a Spanish naval officer who explored the west coast of North America as far north as Alaska during multiple voyages of discovery in the late 18th century.

The location scenes in the [[Alfred Hitchcock]]-directed [[film]] [[The Birds (film)|''The Birds'']] (1963) were filmed in both Bodega Bay and nearby [[Bodega, California|Bodega]] (though both were represented as being parts of the film's Bodega Bay.) The town markets itself by using the film in many ways, including its ''Birds''-themed visitors' center although none of the film's primary locations is found there. The [[Saint Teresa of Avila Church (Bodega, California)|church]] and the schoolhouse shown in the film are on the Bodega Highway in Bodega.<ref>
{{Cite web|url= https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/12655|title= Hitchcock's The Birds Shot Here, Bodega, California|website= RoadsideAmerica.com|language= en|access-date= 2018-07-20}}
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The town also featured in the cult horror film ''[[Puppet Master (film)|Puppet Master]]'' (1989).

The [[Pacific Gas and Electric Company]] (PG&E) wanted to build a nuclear power plant at Gaffney Point on Bodega Head, across the bay from the town, in the 1960s, but the plans were shut down after a large protest (the first for environmental reasons) and the [[San Andreas Fault|geologic fault]] which was found while it was digging the hole for the first reactor. The hole filled with water and became known as [[Bodega Bay Nuclear Power Plant|"The Hole in the Head"]].