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

BODEGA.

   This thriving village derives its name from the port of Bodega, near which it
is situated, and the port from its discoverer, Juan Francisco de la Bodega.
Bodega is on a portion of the tract farmed by the Russians, and had a number of
excellent houses upon it, built by them. After the departure of the Russians the
land was granted to Captain Stephen Smith, who was the first American settler in
that part of the county. Captain Smith owned a small vessel called the Fayaway,
which he run between the Port of Bodega and San Francisco; in '49, fare was the
moderate sum of fourteen dollars from Bodega to San Francisco, on the Fayaway.

   The town of Bodega, near the Smith homestead, took its start in 1853. A man
named Robinson started a saloon; Hughes, a blacksmith shop. Hughes and a man
named Bowman built the first hotel, which was afterwards burned. Donald McDonald
and Rositer Bros, were the first merchants in the town of Bodega. The oldest
settlers in the neighborhood were James Watson, ex-Sheriff Potter, Mr. Higler
and J. L. Springer. The town is now quite a prosperous place. It is situated in
the center of a rich dairy country. It has three churches and a school-house
built at a cost of five thousand dollars. There are one hundred and twenty-five
children in the district, and two teachers are employed. There is also in the
town a Masonic, Odd Fellows and Good Templars' Lodge. There are three stores,
one shoemaker, one blacksmith and wagon shop, one hotel and two private
boarding-houses, one livery stable, two physicians, and one butcher-shop. J. L.
Springer is justice of the peace and postmaster. The population of the town is
about two hundred and fifty.


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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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