Local History & Genealogy Notes
Local History & Genealogy Notes
Notes on Sonoma County local history and genealogy from the History & Genealogy Library -- originally published as a blog on the main Sonoma County Library site between 2011 and 2019. The articles and exhibitions cover a range of subjects, using resources from our collections. These include famous people, buildings, places in the history of the county and its settlements, and more.
Please note that only selected articles have been moved to this site. All articles followed by an asterisk are still on the old main Library site and may include broken links, including links to images. Those articles will be added to this site over time.
2019
A Sonoma County Suffragent (October 16, 2019)
A Snapshot of the 1926 Sonoma County Hops Harvest (August 11, 2019)
Introducing the 1974 FFA Sweethearts! (June 24, 2019)
Suffrage Will Be the Theme (March 11, 2019)
Now is the Time to Plan for the 100th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage (January 30, 2019)
Santa Rosa's WCTU Fountain (January 6, 2019)
2018
Santa Rosa's Chapel of the Chimes (November 18, 2018)*
Web Archives: A Step into Libraries of the Future (October 20, 2018)*
A Northern California "Pioneer" in Her Own Right (March 28, 2018)*
Sarah Cassiday, the Ladies' Improvement Club and an Ambulance (February 18, 2018)*
News Clippings of Local WWII Servicemembers Digitized by California State Library (January 16, 2018)*
2017
Their Time is Now (December 27, 2017)*
Coffey Park's Namesake (November 22, 2017)
Wednesdays are for Women - Thinking about Helen Putnam (October 4, 2017)*
From Church to Labor Temple (September 4, 2017)*
Marriage - Sonoma County Fair Style (August 11, 2017)*
Juilliard Park and the Landscape Architect Who Designed it (August 7, 2017)*
A Photo of Three Petaluma Women and So Much More (March 8, 2017)*
Turton, Not Dolliver, Designed the 1913 Santa Rosa City Hall (January 23, 2017)*
Interesting Discovery at the Sonoma County Archives (January 18, 2017)*
2016
Wednesdays are for Women: Dagny Juell (October 5, 2016)*
Post Card Identified Using Electronic as Well as Print Resources (October 1, 2016)*
One of Luther Burbank's Photographers (April 15, 2016)*
Cyrus H. Bumpus - Santa Rosa Carpenter (January 2, 2016)*
2015
Fascinating New Book on California's Wine History (December 8, 2015)*
Santa Rosa Water Works Ledgers Donated to the Library (December 5, 2015)*
Salvador's Adobe Not Mariano's (December 2, 2015)*
Beautiful Historic Photograph Donated to Library (November 3, 2015)*
Understanding Local History Within a Broader Context (October 31, 2015)*
Friday Fun Photo (October 16, 2015)*
Fun Fact -- Agricultural Acreage (September 19, 2015)*
Recent Donation to the Sonoma County History & Genealogy Library: The Old Carnegie Library Pitcher (September 10, 2015)*
2014
The Ghosts of Floods Past (December 18, 2014)*
Santa Rosa's Carnegie Library (October 30, 2014)
Going to Church--but Where? (September 18, 2014)*
Unidentified Industrial Building Under Construction, 1975 (August 25, 2014)*
More Unidentified Commercial Buildings (August 7, 2014)*
Unidentified -- in Petaluma? (April 29, 2014)*
Film Star Edward Arnold Endorses Petaluma's Fair (April 24, 2014)*
Who were the Becks? (April 2, 2014)
Then & Now (January 11, 2014)*
2013
Happy Thanksgiving - Max Poehlmann (November 23, 2013)*
A Visit to Cypress Hill Memorial Park on Veterans Day 2013 (November 14, 2013)*
Beautification Project at 330 Western Avenue, Petaluma, California (November 6, 2013)*
A Little Bit of Petaluma Beer History (September 14, 2013)*
Sign Provides Clues to Past in the Oakhill Brewster Neighborhood (August 17, 2013)*
Street Names (August 08, 2013)*
The Theme is The River (July 20, 2013)*
H. P. Vogensen Builds Home on Coady Court (July 5, 2013)*
Treasures in the Library Basement (June 13, 2013)*
The Other Goldman D Street Residence (June 12, 2013)*
Hansen House's Future Looks Promising (May 29, 2013)*
Historic Petaluma Hansen House To Be Rehabilitated (May 11, 2013)*
McKinley School Has a Birthday (May 4, 2013)*
Using DNA to Solve Your Genealogical Mysteries (April 19, 2013)*
National Library Week April 14-20, 2013 (April 17, 2013)*
Fate of Petaluma Landmark Barns in Jeopardy (April 05, 2013)*
Petaluma and the WCTU (March 28, 2013)*
Real Estate Listing Inspires Further Research (March 21, 2013)*
Dr. Anabel McGaughey Stuart Memorial Update (March 21, 2013)*
Finding One Thing While Looking For Another - My Usual MO (March 15, 2013)*
March is National Women's History Month (March 09, 2013)*
“Dating” and “Placing” Our Family Photographs (February 9, 2013)*
Unpublished Letters of Ivan Turgenev (February 6, 2013)*
14 Keller Street - Then and Now (February 2, 2013)*
Petaluma Feed Mill Captures the Eye of Local Artist (January 24, 2013)*
Brainerd Jones Designed For The Living As Well As For The Departed (January 16, 2013)*
Stolen Memorial - A Work of Art (January 12, 2013)*
Streamline-Style Building One of Petaluma's Sleekest (January 3, 2013)*
2012
A Study of Petaluma's Architecture Leads to Interesting Discoveries (December 29, 2012)*
Petaluma Business Supports the WWII Effort With Coveralls (December 19, 2012)*
It's Cheese Country! (December 13, 2012)*
Joseph Tuttle and Tuttle Drugs (December 8, 2012)*
California Cattle Exhibit (November 15, 2012)*
Wilsey-Bennett Co., Petaluma, California (November 9, 2012)*
Banned Books, Palm Trees & Hollywood (October 6, 2012)*
Historic Homes of Petaluma: 16 Sixth Street --1914 or 1916? McCargar or Lepley? (October 3, 2012)*
From Peasants to Entrepreneurs: The Italian American Experience in the North Coast Wine Industry (September 15, 2012)*
Follow Up on Dairyman's Feed (September 14, 2012)*
Dairymen's Feed - A Petaluma Landmark Worthy of Respect (September 8, 2012)*
100-Year-Old Craftsman Home for Sale in Petaluma (September 5, 2012)*
Mortensen Hatchery - Two Hatcheries for the Price of One (September 4, 2012)*
Friendly City Has A Birthday! (August 31, 2012)*
Steuben School (August 18, 2012)*
Petaluma Little League -- 1958 (August 11, 2012)*
Brain Teaser with a Historical Twist (July 23, 2012)*
Clover Fun Facts (June 30, 2012)*
Petaluma Co-Operative Creamery Driver Identified! (June 16, 2012)*
Buttke Family Dairy Named Outstanding Dairy of the Year (June 14, 2012)*
Palm Trees in Petaluma (June 9, 2012)*
My Milkman Memory (June 2, 2012)*
June is National Dairy Month! (June 1, 2012)*
Sonoma Marin Fair Photos (May 25, 2012)*
From Grain Elevators to Hatcheries (May 18, 2012)*
Sonoma County Hospital Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary (May 2, 2012)*
National Library Week (April 21, 2012)*
Three Blind Mice (April 7, 2012)*
A Hole in the Head (March 27, 2012)*
Two Homes of Catherine Farley Brown (March 15, 2012)*
Notes on Sonoma County local history and genealogy from the History & Genealogy Library -- originally published as a blog on the main Sonoma County Library site between 2011 and 2019. The articles and exhibitions cover a range of subjects, using resources from our collections. These include famous people, buildings, places in the history of the county and its settlements, and more.
Please note that only selected articles have been moved to this site. All articles followed by an asterisk are still on the old main Library site and may include broken links, including links to images. Those articles will be added to this site over time.
2019
A Sonoma County Suffragent (October 16, 2019)
A Snapshot of the 1926 Sonoma County Hops Harvest (August 11, 2019)
Introducing the 1974 FFA Sweethearts! (June 24, 2019)
Suffrage Will Be the Theme (March 11, 2019)
Now is the Time to Plan for the 100th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage (January 30, 2019)
Santa Rosa's WCTU Fountain (January 6, 2019)
2018
Santa Rosa's Chapel of the Chimes (November 18, 2018)*
Web Archives: A Step into Libraries of the Future (October 20, 2018)*
A Northern California "Pioneer" in Her Own Right (March 28, 2018)*
Sarah Cassiday, the Ladies' Improvement Club and an Ambulance (February 18, 2018)*
News Clippings of Local WWII Servicemembers Digitized by California State Library (January 16, 2018)*
2017
Their Time is Now (December 27, 2017)*
Coffey Park's Namesake (November 22, 2017)
Wednesdays are for Women - Thinking about Helen Putnam (October 4, 2017)*
From Church to Labor Temple (September 4, 2017)*
Marriage - Sonoma County Fair Style (August 11, 2017)*
Juilliard Park and the Landscape Architect Who Designed it (August 7, 2017)*
A Photo of Three Petaluma Women and So Much More (March 8, 2017)*
Turton, Not Dolliver, Designed the 1913 Santa Rosa City Hall (January 23, 2017)*
Interesting Discovery at the Sonoma County Archives (January 18, 2017)*
2016
Wednesdays are for Women: Dagny Juell (October 5, 2016)*
Post Card Identified Using Electronic as Well as Print Resources (October 1, 2016)*
One of Luther Burbank's Photographers (April 15, 2016)*
Cyrus H. Bumpus - Santa Rosa Carpenter (January 2, 2016)*
2015
Fascinating New Book on California's Wine History (December 8, 2015)*
Santa Rosa Water Works Ledgers Donated to the Library (December 5, 2015)*
Salvador's Adobe Not Mariano's (December 2, 2015)*
Beautiful Historic Photograph Donated to Library (November 3, 2015)*
Understanding Local History Within a Broader Context (October 31, 2015)*
Friday Fun Photo (October 16, 2015)*
Fun Fact -- Agricultural Acreage (September 19, 2015)*
Recent Donation to the Sonoma County History & Genealogy Library: The Old Carnegie Library Pitcher (September 10, 2015)*
2014
The Ghosts of Floods Past (December 18, 2014)*
Santa Rosa's Carnegie Library (October 30, 2014)
Going to Church--but Where? (September 18, 2014)*
Unidentified Industrial Building Under Construction, 1975 (August 25, 2014)*
More Unidentified Commercial Buildings (August 7, 2014)*
Unidentified -- in Petaluma? (April 29, 2014)*
Film Star Edward Arnold Endorses Petaluma's Fair (April 24, 2014)*
Who were the Becks? (April 2, 2014)
Then & Now (January 11, 2014)*
2013
Happy Thanksgiving - Max Poehlmann (November 23, 2013)*
A Visit to Cypress Hill Memorial Park on Veterans Day 2013 (November 14, 2013)*
Beautification Project at 330 Western Avenue, Petaluma, California (November 6, 2013)*
A Little Bit of Petaluma Beer History (September 14, 2013)*
Sign Provides Clues to Past in the Oakhill Brewster Neighborhood (August 17, 2013)*
Street Names (August 08, 2013)*
The Theme is The River (July 20, 2013)*
H. P. Vogensen Builds Home on Coady Court (July 5, 2013)*
Treasures in the Library Basement (June 13, 2013)*
The Other Goldman D Street Residence (June 12, 2013)*
Hansen House's Future Looks Promising (May 29, 2013)*
Historic Petaluma Hansen House To Be Rehabilitated (May 11, 2013)*
McKinley School Has a Birthday (May 4, 2013)*
Using DNA to Solve Your Genealogical Mysteries (April 19, 2013)*
National Library Week April 14-20, 2013 (April 17, 2013)*
Fate of Petaluma Landmark Barns in Jeopardy (April 05, 2013)*
Petaluma and the WCTU (March 28, 2013)*
Real Estate Listing Inspires Further Research (March 21, 2013)*
Dr. Anabel McGaughey Stuart Memorial Update (March 21, 2013)*
Finding One Thing While Looking For Another - My Usual MO (March 15, 2013)*
March is National Women's History Month (March 09, 2013)*
“Dating” and “Placing” Our Family Photographs (February 9, 2013)*
Unpublished Letters of Ivan Turgenev (February 6, 2013)*
14 Keller Street - Then and Now (February 2, 2013)*
Petaluma Feed Mill Captures the Eye of Local Artist (January 24, 2013)*
Brainerd Jones Designed For The Living As Well As For The Departed (January 16, 2013)*
Stolen Memorial - A Work of Art (January 12, 2013)*
Streamline-Style Building One of Petaluma's Sleekest (January 3, 2013)*
2012
A Study of Petaluma's Architecture Leads to Interesting Discoveries (December 29, 2012)*
Petaluma Business Supports the WWII Effort With Coveralls (December 19, 2012)*
It's Cheese Country! (December 13, 2012)*
Joseph Tuttle and Tuttle Drugs (December 8, 2012)*
California Cattle Exhibit (November 15, 2012)*
Wilsey-Bennett Co., Petaluma, California (November 9, 2012)*
Banned Books, Palm Trees & Hollywood (October 6, 2012)*
Historic Homes of Petaluma: 16 Sixth Street --1914 or 1916? McCargar or Lepley? (October 3, 2012)*
From Peasants to Entrepreneurs: The Italian American Experience in the North Coast Wine Industry (September 15, 2012)*
Follow Up on Dairyman's Feed (September 14, 2012)*
Dairymen's Feed - A Petaluma Landmark Worthy of Respect (September 8, 2012)*
100-Year-Old Craftsman Home for Sale in Petaluma (September 5, 2012)*
Mortensen Hatchery - Two Hatcheries for the Price of One (September 4, 2012)*
Friendly City Has A Birthday! (August 31, 2012)*
Steuben School (August 18, 2012)*
Petaluma Little League -- 1958 (August 11, 2012)*
Brain Teaser with a Historical Twist (July 23, 2012)*
Clover Fun Facts (June 30, 2012)*
Petaluma Co-Operative Creamery Driver Identified! (June 16, 2012)*
Buttke Family Dairy Named Outstanding Dairy of the Year (June 14, 2012)*
Palm Trees in Petaluma (June 9, 2012)*
My Milkman Memory (June 2, 2012)*
June is National Dairy Month! (June 1, 2012)*
Sonoma Marin Fair Photos (May 25, 2012)*
From Grain Elevators to Hatcheries (May 18, 2012)*
Sonoma County Hospital Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary (May 2, 2012)*
National Library Week (April 21, 2012)*
Three Blind Mice (April 7, 2012)*
A Hole in the Head (March 27, 2012)*
Two Homes of Catherine Farley Brown (March 15, 2012)*