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

FORT ROSS.

   We have elsewhere given a sketch of the early history of this place, the
first settled by Europeans, north of San Francisco. Bodega bay was occupied by
the Russians in 1812; the stockade at Ross was built shortly after, with the
double purpose of repelling the attacks of Indians or of the Californians,
should either attempt to dispossess the fur hunters. It was admirably chosen for
the purpose of defense. The Russians might have defied all the forces that could
possibly have been brought against them, and did hold possession of the country
around Ross until they were ready to leave, in 1840. The place is now owned by
an enterprising citizen, Mr. G. W. Call, who uses it as a farm and dairy ranch.

   There is an excellent shipping point at Ross, from which farm products, wood,
posts, lumber, and tan-bark, are shipped by coasters directly to the city.



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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