Logging in Mendocino in the 1800s depended on the Big River for transporting the giant redwood trees to the mill. Our Mendocino B&B has a strong resemblence to the past. Most of the logging occurred during the summer when the current was not strong enough to float the logs to the mill. Twenty-six dams were built on the river, and behind each dam was built a log “deck”. As the log stack got higher, its weight pushed the lowest ones (called “sinker logs”) deeper into the silt. When the rains came, they opened the dams and floated all but the sinkers down river to the mill. Those abandoned logs lay undiscovered for the next 150 years. Over a century later, during a construction project on a nearby bridge, the “sinker” logs were found deeply embedded in the silt. These perfectly preserved 100-150 year old logs ranged in diameter up to 16 feet. Virgin growth and guiltless, this redwood was eco-salvaged from the mud and used as a major component in the construction of the present-day Brewery Gulch Inn. The location, a part of the original farmstead of Mendocino pioneer, Homer Barton, has spectacular water views and borders hundreds of acres of unoccupied meadows and state-protected forests. Brewery Gulch Inn was purchased by the current owner, Guy Pacurar, in 2007