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

STREETS.

   There are between forty and fifty miles of street in Santa Rosa. They range
from fifty to eighty feet in width; the side-walks are from eight to twenty feet
in width. Both streets and side-walks are macadamized with coarse gravel. Fourth
street is a mile and a half long; it is the principal business street, passing
along the north side of the plaza. Sonoma avenue is on the south side of Santa
Rosa creek, in E. T. Farmer's addition. It is eighty feet wide, and will extend
in a short time for three miles. It will eventually become a fashionable drive
and promenade.

   MCDONALD AVENUE.—This is one of the leading streets in Santa Rosa. It was
laid out through a tract of one hundred and sixty acres of land lying on the
border of the city, purchased by Col. Mark L. McDonald, of San Francisco. It is
beautifully diversified with clusters of oaks. The soil is extremely fertile,
and the tract has been subdivided into town and villa lots. The avenue is
handsomely laid out with broad drives, and side-walks, along which, on either
side, are rows of eucalyptus trees. Its length is a little short of one mile,
leading into Fourth, the principal thoroughfare and business street of the city.
A street railway runs from the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad depot,
up Fourth street, into and through McDonald avenue, where it terminates. The
cars run every few minutes, affording the utmost facilities for the
accommodation of residents of that part of the city. The proprietor of these
grounds has spared no pains to make it the most desirable and beautiful portion
of this most beautiful of cities—Santa Rosa.

   Gas and water pipes are laid through the avenue, uniting all the conveniences
of city life with pure air and rural scenery. The landscape gardener now
smoothes down the furrows of the fields, and the builder marks out his
foundations upon ground over which, but a short time ago, the ripe grain bent
before the wanton summer breeze.

   It is not too much to say that, by his liberal investments, Mr. McDonald has
given a further impetus to the rapid growth of Santa Rosa, and deserves the good
wishes of all the citizens of this growing city and those who sojourn upon its
borders.


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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