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

THE CITY OF SONOMA.

   The early history of the city of Sonoma is the history of the county. It is
inseparably connected with the stirring events which led to the occupation of
this State by the Americans. For a long time it was a place of the first
importance. Here General Percifer Smith made his headquarters. Captain,
afterwards General, Lyon, Lieutenant, afterwards General Stoneman, General
Leonard, General Hooker, and the inimitable Lieutenant Derby, were all former
residents of Sonoma. Its society was polished and intellectual, and could the
unwritten records of the old town be brought to light, it would in itself make
up a volume of extraordinary interest.

   Though surrounded by an intelligent and wealthy population, the town has not
flourished, as has been elsewhere stated in this sketch. It has, however, good
schools, a bank, several large wine manufactories, four large stores—two of
which are kept respectively by the pioneers, Pauli Brothers and J. Poppe. The
old mission church still stands, and there are besides several other churches.
It has good hotels, an I. O. O. F. and Masonic lodge. General M. G. Vallejo, the
distinguished ex-commandant general of California under the preceding regime,
resides at his elegant home, Lachryma Montis, on the edge of the town. All honor
to the gallant general, who was at the cradling of Sonoma in 1835. All honor to
the pioneers who raised the Bear flag on the plaza of Sonoma, and all honor to
the ever-memorable old town which was the scene of the first in the series of
events which led to the acquisition by the United States of the fairest of the
sisterhood of States, with its rich dower of valley land yielding one hundred
fold, and uplands eager for the tap of the absorbing vine, and mountains rich in
gold as the hills of Ophir.


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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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