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

DONAHUE.

   This place is located on Petaluma creek, about eight miles below the town of
Petaluma. It is the present terminus of the San Francisco and North Pacific
Railroad; the cars at this point connect with the swift and elegant steamer
James M. Donahue for San Francisco. From Donohue to San Francisco, across the
bay, the distance is twenty-five miles,—the steamer makes it in an hour and
a-half. The town is called after Colonel James M. Donahue, the enterprising
builder and principal owner in the railroad. Here the machine-shops of the
company are located. The place has no importance other than is derived from the
fact that the transfer of passengers and freight from cars to steamer, or visa
versa, is here made.

   Within this year the railroad will be extended to a point on the west side of
the bay, within half an hour's ferriage of San Francisco. In that event it is
more than probable the cars will cross Petaluma creek over a draw-bridge, at or
near the town of Donahue. There is a hotel, post-office, &c., at this place, and
it is surrounded by rich farming and dairy country. The fine farm of J. R.
Rose,—for many years president of the Sonoma and Marin Agricultural Society, and
a pioneer breeder of thorough-bred Devonshire cattle, is situated a few miles
below Donahue.



Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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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