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Book Title: Historical And Descriptive Sketch Of Sonoma County, California

BLOOMFIELD.

   This town is situated at the head of Big valley, or the valley of the Estero
Americano. It was first settled by Judge Cockrill and Bill Zilhardt. A man named
Lamb started the first store. Among the earliest settlers in the neighborhood
were W. P. Hinshaw, W. H. White, L. D. Cockrill, Henry Hall, John Linebaugh,
Alonzo Walker, the late John Peters, Hugh Stockton, Wm. Jones, Hon. E. C.
Hinshaw, and O. P. Hoag. There is a post, express and telegraph office in the
town; two stores, one hotel, three churches, (Presbyterian, Methodist, and
Advent), one Masonic hall, and a lodge of Odd Fellows; one harness and three
blacksmith shops, one cooper shop, and a flouring mill. The population is about
two hundred and fifty. There is an excellent public school with over a hundred
scholars. The place is surrounded by as rich a farming and dairy country as
there is in the State of California.


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HISTORICAL
AND
DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH
OF
SONOMA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
BY
ROBERT A. THOMPSON,
EDITOR OF "THE SONOMA DEMOCRAT."
PHILADELPHIA:
L. H. EVERTS & CO. 
1877.


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