Exploring Downtown Rio Dell, Humboldt, California 

Thanks, we lived there late 60s into 70s, BIG FOOT

Rio Dell was founded first, up on the hill to the north, by Lorenzo Painter. As immigrants came to the area for work in the mill, they settled in what is now downtown Rio Dell, nearer to the river. That was Wildwood. In 1965, Rio Dell became incorporated, and the whole area took that name officially.

Pacific Avenue, on the hill to your right, was the original Redwood Highway. There was a hotel and stores up there. Old Rio Dell.