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

GEYSERVILLE.

   Geyserville is a village and post-office on the San Francisco and North
Pacific Railroad, about twenty-four miles north of the county-seat, Santa Rosa.
It was settled by Dr. Elisha Ely in 1851. The first business-house was a store
started in 1854 by Colonel A. C. Godwin, who afterwards located the Geyser
springs.   Colonel Godwin went east in 1861, and was killed in the civil war.

   At present there is one store in the village, one post and express-office,
one saloon, one hotel, and one blacksmith-shop. The hill-land about Geyserville
is well adapted to fruit-culture, especially to the growth of wine-grapes. It
would not surprise us if the wines of that section would become famous. There is
every essential in soil and climate for the growth of the best varieties of
grapes, stone and seed fruits.


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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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