Sonoma County CA Archives History - Books .....Fisherman's Bay 1877 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 25, 2006, 4:13 am Book Title: Historical And Descriptive Sketch Of Sonoma County, California FISHERMAN'S BAY is situated twenty-eight miles north of Russian river, and twelve miles south of Valhalla river. It was first settled in 1858, and contains a hotel, store and saloon, all owned by J. C. Fisk, who also has the shutes for shipping cord-wood, lumber, tan-bark, post, fencing and railroad ties. There is annually shipped from this point one thousand cords of tan-bark, five hundred cords of oak wood, sixty thousand posts, and eight million feet of lumber. The tan-bark is worth ten dollars per cord at the chute, wood six dollars per cord, posts six dollars per hundred, and lumber sixteen dollars per thousand. Population of the place about one hundred. 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sonoma/history/1877/historic/fisherma387nms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb