A small lighthouse memorial that was once a proud symbol for a tiny Northern California fishing community now sits in a parking lot.
The Trinidad Memorial Lighthouse sits in a temporary spot near the parking lot for Trinidad Harbor after being moved from an ocean bluff in 2018 because of erosion. The lighthouse is a replica, built in 1949, of the original 1871 lighthouse that is still operational on Trinidad Head.
After fissures appeared, geologists warned city officials that attempts to permanently stabilize the top of the bluff would, essentially, prove futile.The Trinidad Civic Club, armed in December 2017 with an emergency coastal development permit from the city, planned to scoot the lighthouse back 20 feetBut the bluff is the site of an ancient Yurok tribal village called Tsurai and, according to the tribe, contains burial grounds.
“For Yuroks, the Trinidad Memorial Lighthouse is a monument to this tragic era. We feel like it is no different than the statues created to honor Confederate soldiers in the South,” said Yurok Tribe Vice Chairman Frankie Myers. “What we’re asking is for the city and Civic Club to give the same respect to our ancestors as they give to the families of the .... people who were buried at sea.”
For 69-year-old Axel Lindgren III and his sister Kelly Lindgren, 58, the story of Tsurai is the story of their family. “They waited for it to become an emergency, and then they could go around the environmental impact report and all the studies,” she said.As a result of the 12-day occupation of the Memorial Lighthouse, the city and the Civic Club scrapped the plan to move the structure back on the bluff, opting to relocate it.
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