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Arcata

American  
[ahr-key-tuh] / ɑrˈkeɪ tə /

noun

  1. a town in NW California.


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They lived for many years in Arcata, northern California, surrounded by sweeping forests of redwood trees, where Wayne worked as a landscape architect, while Stella was a primary school teacher.

From BBC Apr. 2, 2025

Hicks said he and his wife bought their home in Arcata in Humboldt County in 2021 after falling in love with the North Coast while he was running for party chair.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 29, 2024

Arcata started dangling $50,000 bonuses to prospective new hires as a result.

From Seattle Times Jan. 16, 2024

But the program is full, and up to 20 people at a time are on the waitlist, said Darlene Spoor, executive director of Arcata House Partnership.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 26, 2023

John Preston, a tanner of Arcata, would accumulate thirty dollars in gold and with it buy fifty dollars in legal-tender notes.

From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock

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