Editing Clearlake, California (section)

==History==
The Clearlake post office opened in 1923, "Konocti" then Clearlake Highlands until incorporation in 1981 when the official name became City of Clearlake. {{Clarify|reason=Very confusing sentence. I'm not sure what it's trying to convey.|date=November 2019}}

The first inhabitants of Clearlake were the Pomo Indians, who named many of the area's features, including [[Mount Konocti]]. Beginning in 1821, enslavement and mistreatment by Spanish soldiers and missionaries, Mexican land barons, European settlers, and gold diggers, combined with a lack of natural immunity to European diseases, resulted in a massive wave of deaths. The result of this was massive amounts of land freed up for the white settlers who arrived during the [[California gold rush|gold rush]].<ref>{{cite web| title = About Lake County: History and Heritage| publisher = Lake County Visitor Center| url = http://www.lakecounty.com/AboutLC/Heritage.htm| access-date = February 23, 2010| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100306020812/http://www.lakecounty.com/AboutLC/Heritage.htm| archive-date = March 6, 2010| df = mdy-all}}</ref>