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

LAKEVILLE.

   This place is situated on Petaluma creek, a short distance above Donahue.
Prior to the railroad era this was a landing-place, where the passengers for the
valley of Sonoma were transferred to a regular stage-line for that point. The
stage still runs to Lakeville, connecting with the regular morning and evening
trains. From Petaluma creek at Lakeville to Sonoma valley, the distance is about
seven miles over rolling hills. The town of Lakeville has no importance except
such as is given it as a point of transfer for freight and passengers from the
San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad trains for Sonoma. The road from
Lakeville over the mountain, between Petaluma and Sonoma creeks, passes the
former Lake Tolay,—of which Padre Altimira, in his mission-founding expedition
in 1823, said: "We found on said hillock, a little further on, the large lake of
Tolay,—co-called after the chief of the Indians, who in former times settled
there. Its width at some parts is, with little difference, one hundred and fifty
varas,*—at others two hundred varas, and at one point one-fourth of a league,
which is also its length." This lake, from which Lakeville was named, was
drained by its present owner (a utilitarian), and is now a potato patch.

* A vara is thirty-three inches and one-third of an inch.


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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