Editing Ferndale, California (section)

===European immigrants===
Danish settlers founded and built Our Savior's Lutheran Church in 1899 and dedicated Danish Hall, which had been built as a warehouse by [[A. Berding House|Arnold Berding]] in the late 1880s, on October 10, 1929.<ref name ="Carlson" />{{rp|67}} The Swiss who settled in Ferndale from Italian- and German-speaking families included the Oeschgers who moved to Ferndale in time for [[Joe Oeschger]] to play baseball at Ferndale High School before going to a career in [[Major League Baseball]]. A later influx of Romansh Swiss included the ancestors of [[College Football Hall of Fame]] coach [[Len Casanova]].<ref name ="Carlson" /> Sausage, salami-making and wine-making can be traced to Italians who arrived later than the Danish and Swiss, beginning around 1897.<ref name ="Carlson" /> The Germans arrived earlier; the first was businessman Arnold Berding in 1857.<ref name ="Carlson" /> Most Germans worked on ranches or were dairymen, but at least one owned the Milwaukee Brewery Depot Saloon.<ref name ="Carlson" /> United States Congressman [[Donald H. Clausen|Don Clausen]] is descended from German settlers of Ferndale.<ref name ="Carlson" /> German settlers organized St. Mark's Lutheran Church in 1906.<ref name ="Carlson" /> Except for three [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] brothers who arrived in the 1870s and a few from mainland Portugal, most came from the [[Azores]] islands between 1900 and 1915.<ref name ="Carlson" /> Ferndale Portuguese have celebrated their traditional Festival of the Holy Ghost since 1924.<ref name ="Carlson" />