Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar, 6 April 1910 Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Ackerman and Mr. and Mrs. John Favour, autoed to Petaluma Friday, where the day was spent visiting Mr. Ackerman’s uncle, Eddie Ackerman, who is now near his ninetieth year. While in the City of Cackles the gentlemen also transacted urgent business. Healdsburg … [Read more…]
Daily Alta California, Volume 1, Number 103, 29 April 1850 REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE On the Derivation and Definition of the Names of the several Counties of the State of California, &c. MARIN — This is the name of the great chief of the tribe Licatiut, and the other tributaries that inhabited this county … [Read more…]
Russian River Flag, Number 19, 14 March 1878 Ten doctors and eight lawyers find employment at Petaluma, respectively in killing people and winding up their estates, etc. Petaluma has about 140 pianos and organs, valued at $42,000 in use in that city, and gives employment to 13 professional music teachers.
[Cal. Star’s Sonoma Correspondence.] SONOMA, January 1, 1848. DEAR EDITOR,— I greet you with a happy New Year, and wish you health and prosperity so long as you live, and a host of young editors to prop your tottering old age to the tomb, with talent sufficient to wear the shoes of their dad, and … [Read more…]
Healdsburg Enterprise, 26 May 1906 It will take one million brick for the main building of the Lachman & Jacobi wine vaults in East Petaluma and as many more for the smaller buildings. The McNear Company has been awarded the contract for the brick and the first lot of 100,000 is already on the ground. … [Read more…]
On Saturday, June 27, at the County Sanitary Landfill on Mecham Road off south Stony Point Road between Petaluma and Cotati, “Recycletown” will be officially inaugurated by Garbage Reincarnation, Inc., the Sonoma County Community Recycling Center, and by the Sonoma County Public Works Department. Recycletown is a place where citizens can bring used oil, paint, … [Read more…]