Editing Fort Bragg, California (section)

=== Since 1916 ===
Commercial fishing has also played an important role in the economic base of the community. Once a major commercial fishing port, Fort Bragg was well known for producing quality fish products that were distributed to major metropolitan markets.

In 1916, the Union Lumber Company built a railroad from the South Fork of [[Ten Mile River (California)|Ten Mile River]] to Fort Bragg,<ref name="CDPR1995">{{cite book|title=MacKerricher State Park General Plan|publisher=California Department of Parks and Recreation|year=1995|page=186}}</ref> where its operations were.<ref name="Melendy1952a">{{cite book|title=One Hundred Years of the Redwood Lumber Industry, 1850&ndash;1950|author1-first=Howard Brent|author1-last=Melendy|publisher=Stanford University|year=1952|page=266}}</ref>
By 1929, what lumber could not be sent by rail to the company mill at Fort Bragg was handled by the mill at [[Pudding Creek]] owned by the Glen Blair Redwood Company.<ref name="Melendy1952a"/><ref name="Melendy1952b">{{cite book|title=One Hundred Years of the Redwood Lumber Industry, 1850&ndash;1950|author1-first=Howard Brent|author1-last=Melendy|publisher=Stanford University|year=1952|page=254}}</ref>
The Union Lumber Company established its own post office on [[Churchman Creek]] to service its logging camps there in 1931,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Mendocino Coast Beacon|location=Mendocino, California|date=September 12, 1931|page=2|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77121573/ulco/|title=New Post Office Established At Ulco Wednesday}}</ref> but it operated only until 1932.<ref name="CGN"/>
The railroad was removed in 1945 as rail transport was replaced by truck haulage; nowadays it is a recreational corridor in [[MacKerricher State Park]].<ref name="CDPR1995"/>

In 1969, the Union Lumber Company was purchased by [[Boise Cascade]] and John Quincy and it became [[Georgia-Pacific|Georgia Pacific Lumber Company]] in 1973. The mill was shut down in 2002 after being identified as a nonperforming asset. The {{Convert|400|acre|km2|adj=on}} piece of property within the city limits takes up almost the entire coastline of Fort Bragg, including Fort Bragg Landing.

{{As of |July 2017}}, the mill site was sold and is undergoing redevelopment, including removal of toxic waste.

====Calls to rename the city====
In 2015, members of the [[California Legislative Black Caucus]] petitioned Fort Bragg to change its name due to Braxton Bragg's links to the Confederacy.<ref name="la_times" /> The mayor of Fort Bragg at that time, Lindy Peters, stated that there was not really much interest among the residents, and cited the costs that every company and institution in the area would have to pay to change all of the addresses.<ref name="cbs">{{Cite news|url=https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/08/16/fort-bragg-confederate-general-namesake/|title=Named After Confederate General, Fort Bragg Contemplates Its Namesake|last=Walker|first=Wilson|date=August 16, 2017|work=CBS SF BayArea|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824105940/https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/08/16/fort-bragg-confederate-general-namesake/|archive-date=August 24, 2019|url-status=dead|access-date=August 29, 2017}}</ref>

There were further calls to change the name in June 2020, following the [[murder of George Floyd]]. On June 22, the Fort Bragg City Council considered whether to put a proposition on the November ballot asking its residents if they would like a name change,<ref name="SacBee-Jun 14">{{Cite news|url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article243530817.html|title=A California city named for a Confederate general considers changing its name|last=Branson-Potts|first=Gailey|date=June 14, 2020|newspaper=Sacramento Bee}}</ref> but decided instead to form an ad hoc committee to explore options for the city's name.<ref name="LA-Jun 23">{{Cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-23/fort-bragg-name-change-confederate|title=California city named for a Confederate general will not put name change on November ballot|last=Sweeny|first=Ron|date=June 23, 2020|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> They estimated the cost to change the name would be $271,000. Among the alternative options that were explored was to simply rededicate the city to a different [[Bragg (surname)|notable person named Bragg]].<ref name="LA-Jun 23"/> By late January 2022, the commission announced that it could not come to a consensus on a name change.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/fort-bragg-citizen-group-unable-to-reach-consensus-on-name-change/|title=Fort Bragg citizen group unable to reach consensus on name change|last=Callahan|first=Mary|date=January 25, 2022|newspaper=The Press Democrat}}</ref> Meanwhile in 2022, the active military fort of the same name in [[North Carolina]] was renamed to [[Fort Liberty]]. The military fort has been renamed back to Fort Bragg since 2025, although officially named for [[Roland L. Bragg]], a World War II US Army paratrooper.