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

CHURCHES AND CHURCH PROPERTY.

   There is, perhaps, no county in the State of California that can boast of an
many houses of worship as Sonoma, unless it be San Francisco. There are in all
forty-three, and these are well distributed over the county.

   The first Protestant church was built in the town of Sonoma by the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, in the year 1852, under the late Rev. E. B. Lockley. It
was a small Gothic church of great beauty. It cost about three thousand dollars,
and it was burned a few years ago.

   The next year another was built by the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the
same town, that is still standing. About the same time Rev. M. Riley, of the
Baptist church, built a house of worship at the site of the old town of
Franklin, near Santa Rosa. This house was regarded as a Union church for the
Hard-shells and the Missionary Baptists. It was subsequently moved to Santa
Rosa, and used by the Baptists until they erected their present house, when it
was converted into a double tenement-house and as such it now stands.

   Of the forty-five churches now standing the Methodist Episcopal Church owns
twelve; the Catholic, six; the Methodist Episcopal Church South, six; the
Presbyterian, four; the Baptist, three; the Congregationalism, three; the
Christian (Campbelite), three; the Adventist, three; the Protestant Episcopal,
two; the Cumberland Presbyterian, one; the colored people, one; and one is owned
jointly by the Methodist Episcopal Church South, the Baptist and Christians.
They are distributed as follows; Santa Rosa has eight; Petaluma, seven;
Healdsburg, seven; Sonoma, three; Bodega Corners, three; Bloomfield, three;
Cloverdale, two; Sebastopol, two; Green Valley, one; Pleasant Hill, one; Valley
Ford, one; Two Rocks, one; Howard's Station, one; Bennett Valley, one;
Guerneville, one; Fulton Station, one; Macedonia, one; Windsor, one.

   We do not give the assessed value of the church property because the figures
on the assessors' books are much below the real value. The inhabitants generally
are a moral, law-abiding people, who contribute liberally to the support of the
churches in their midst.

   Long before any of the churches here mentioned were built or thought of, the
chime of bells in the Greek chapel at Ross floated out over the waters of the
Pacific.



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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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