In a reoent Journal
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printed the way Sonoma County cities
were described in an early 1900 j>romotial brochure, namely
Santa Rosa, Petaluma and Sebastopol. Herewith the balance
of the towns in the county.
Healdsburg -
llealdsburg is an incorporated city of 3,000 population on the Russian
River. Jt lias attractive residences and is an important shipping point, its
annual fruit shipments amounting to over one thousand earloads. It owns
its water and light plants, and lias a $33,000 grammar school, a high school
and a $10,000 library. It has four banks, three newspapers, three canneries
and three big fruit-packing establishments.
Cloverdale
Cloverdale, with 1,300 inhabitants, is frequently called the Orange City.
Here the Russian River is within a stone’s throw of the heart of town, and
nearby are valuable mineral springs. The city owns its water system and
has installed an $18,000 sewer system. The largest winery in the state is
located here, and half a dozen important crops add to the city’s solidity.
A citrus fair has been held here annually for twenty years.
Sonoma City
Sonoma City, the historic town in the valley which gave the county its
name, has 1,300 inhabitants. In the surrounding territory more than forty
families have settled within a year, and the town itself gained over a hun¬
dred per cent, in population between 1900 and 1910. Here are a brewery,
a planing mill and two ice plants, besides a two-liiindred-tliousand-gallon
winery and several chicken hatcheries with an output of over two hundred
thousand chickens a year. Incidentally, this city lies in an artesian hell,
and it is three miles from tidewater, San Pablo Bay. A $20,000 sewer
system has just been installed. The other public works include a $27.000
city hall in a park. It is noteworthy that products grown in this vicinity
have taken premiums at the Mechanics’ Institute of San Francisco as the
best displays of citrus fruits, vegetables, table grapes and farm products.
Olive oil from here look first premium at Paris in 1900, and Sonoma Valley
wines took n grand prize at St. bonis ns well as nt several other important
expositions.
Geyserville
Geyserville, on the main line of the Northwestern Pacific and close to the
Russian River, is not only the trading center for a rich territory but has
many resorts in its vicinity.
Windsor
Windsor, also on the main line, south of Healdsburg, is in the heart of
one of the richest fruit and farming seclions of the state. Immense ship¬
ments are sent each season from this up-to-date and prosperous town of
six hundred.
Fulton
Full on, containing 23(1 people, is a producer of Imps, prunes and grapes,
north of Simla Rosa. Il is a junction on I lie Norl liweslern Pacific;
Other Inland Towns
Glen Kllcn, near which is the Kldridgc State Home for Feeble-minded
Children, is in llic Sonoma Valley. HI Verano is also in this valley.
Penngrove and Cotati, tributary to Petaluma, are farming centers in
the main valley. . . .
Forestville, a town of 230, one terminal of the electric railway, is in the
Gold Ridge district, as is also Graton, with 200 inhabitants. Both are big
fruit shippers, Graton being especially noted for its cherries.
fuerneville and the Coast
Guerneville is the principal of the const, towns. With a population of
100, it is an important, dairy, fruit and lumber center, its apples being
specially fine. .
There are several interesting and busy towns in the const region,
'azadero, well known for the beauty of its surroundings, is an important
I airy center. Dairying also lends prestige to Occidental (population /OH),
Talley Ford (population 230), and Bodega (population 300). Bloomfield
population 400) is known for its grain, potatoes and dairy products,
freestone (population 130) has a sawmill. Duncan Mills is also a heavy
umber shipper. Monte Rio, best known for its resorts has a permanent
lopulation of 200, lmt in summer is the borne of from 2,000 to 3,000 people.
)n the north, on the coast, are Fiskc's Mill and historic Fort Ross.
