Estelle Getty performed comedy.
The Ferndale Museum , located in Ferndale , California , houses and exhibits artifacts , documents and papers from settlement during the California Gold Rush to the present including an active Bosch-Omori seismograph .. California Gold Rush. California Gold Rush. The area of collection covers the lower Eel River Valley as far south as the Mattole River Valley and west to the Pacific Ocean .. Eel River Valley. Eel River ( California ). Mattole River Valley. Mattole River. Pacific Ocean. Pacific ocean. Collections include over 6,000 photographs , back issues of the Ferndale Enterprise newspaper , and family papers spanning 140 years .