It looks like reading old newspapers isn’t a new pastime and remains as addictive as ever … Sonoma Democrat > 10 December 1857 OLD CALIFORNIA PAPERS. Californian. — We are indebted to W. H. Crowell, our esteemed County Clerk, for the perusal of a file of the Californian, a weekly paper published in San Francisco … [Read more…]
Sonoma Democrat > 26 November 1857 Visit to Sonoma. — One day last week we visited the beautiful valley and city of Sonoma. It is one of the oldest settlements in the State, having been settled under the authority of the Mexican government, by Col. Vallejo, about the year 1830. Affording as this valley does, … [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…]
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. SONOMA.— The name of this county is an Indian word, signifying “Valley of the Moon,” by which the aborigines designated the valley … [Read more…]
[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…]
Sacramento Union, 5 March 1922 Native Californian of 1850 Revives Memories of Early Days WILLIAM H. HOLLAND OF SACRAMENTO RICH IN LORE OF ROMANTIC GROWTH OF STATE FROM DAYS OF GOLD RUSH Local Man, Now 72, and Remarkably Clear in Memory, Tells Some Experiences of Himself and Parents During Building of Western Empire. Living in … [Read more…]
Under the PAGE ONE heading: PERSONAL ITEMS CULLED FROM ENTERPRISE OF THIRTY YEARS AGO: … When, ere many years, a through overland road shall pass through here, it will give the Easterner a glimpse of our verdured hills, of our rich alluvial valleys, of our rushing, sparkling mountain streams, of old Russian River, kissed by … [Read more…]