The United States of America is indebted to dreary Eureka.
Had this northern California coastal region not been so forlorn, isolated and depressing back in the 1800s, the great Civil War general and 18th president of the United States Ulysses S. Grant might not have resigned his commission as commanding officer of F Company at Fort Humboldt in the 1850s.
And we can only imagine how things would have turned out without General Grant leading the charge against the rebellious South.