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

OCCIDENTAL POST-OFFICE.

   This place is on the narrow-gauge road where it crosses the divide, between
the waters flowing into O'Farrell valley on the south side, and through Howard
canon into Russian river on the north side. The station is called Howard's
station, after William Howard, who settled there in 1849, and is still a
resident of the place. The town-site belongs partly to Mr. Howard and partly to
the Meeker Bros. It is a place of recent growth, but already boasts of a post,
express, and telegraph office, a good hotel, general store, blacksmith shop,
church, &c Unlike most towns in Sonoma, it is surrounded by forests, and the
stump of a tree stands in the main street, out of which one hundred and twenty
thousand shingles were made. The Rev. M. George has charge of the church. The
first store was started by McCaughey & Co., on the 4th of April, 1877. J. W.
Noble opened a hotel in January, 1877, which is called the Summit House. The
population of the place is about fifty souls.


Additional Comments:
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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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