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

TWO ROCK POST-OFFICE.

   This post-office takes its name from two rather peculiar rocks, which were
called by the Californians Dos Piedros. These rocks stood on a point where the
Blucher and Balsa de Tomales ranchos cornered. They were also a landmark on the
northwestern boundary of the Laguna de San Antonio, or Bojorques ranch. The old
Mexican trail, from San Rafael to Bodega and Ross, passed between these two
rocks, which were referred to, far and near, in speaking of that section. The
first settlers, in the neighborhood of Two Rocks, were Samuel Tustin, J. R.
Lewis, Charles Purvine, S. M. Martin, James and E. Denman. The post-office is at
the junction of the Bloomfield and Tomales roads, about a mile and a-half from
the two rocks from which it takes its name.

   The farm where the post-office is located was first settled by John
Schwobeda. He sold it to Charles Weigand, who now owns it and is postmaster.
There is at the cross-roads, a Grange hall, a Presbyterian church and a
blacksmith-shop. Two Rock is eight miles from Petaluma. It is surrounded by a
rich and fertile country. Of the farms thereabouts that of S. M. Martin,
containing three hundred and twenty acres, is one of the very best.


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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