Sonoma County CA Archives History - Books .....Windsor 1877
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 25, 2006, 3:22 am

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

WINDSOR.

   The village of Windsor is located on the main county-road leading from Santa
Rosa to Healdsburg, nine miles northwest from Santa Rosa and six miles southeast
of Healdsburg; it is within less than a mile of the San Francisco and North
Pacific Railroad.

   The first we hear of Windsor as a town, or rather as a local habitation with
a name, was in 1854, when a post-office was established, to which the first
postmaster, Hiram Lewis, gave the name of Windsor, perhaps after Windsor park or
forest—as the place was surrounded on all sides by trees, which gave it a
park-like appearance. In 1857 Lewis sold it to Thad. Deshier. A man named
Emmerson opened the first hotel, known as the Windsor hotel. The place is now
owned (and is run as a hotel) by Thomas Hopkins. The first physician in the
place was Dr. Wilson, who sold out to Dr. Davis, the only physician now in Windsor.

   The first store was opened by a man named Buckalew, in 1856, on the lot where
William Clark's dwelling ROW stands. About the same time Davis W. Graham started
a blacksmith-shop. In 1857 Rosenberg & Linhemen bought the store. In 1861
Rosenberg & Bros, succeeded this firm, and built a large storehouse, and kept it
until 1870. They were succeeded by Kelsy & Livingston, who closed the business.
The house is still used by T. J. Hopkins for a store. Kruse & Petray opened the
second store in Windsor, in 1865, in a house which they built near where H. H.
Lafferty's shoe-shop now stands. Harrison Barnes bought Kruse's interest, and
sold out in 1867 to Crane, Hendley & Co., who were succeeded by Northcutt & Co.,
and they by Clark & Lindsay. The latter firm commenced business in 1871, and
still continue.

   H. H. Lafferty started a shoe-shop in 1864, and still remains in the same
place. In March, 1868, the town was located as a town-site under the State law.
It was surveyed in October, 1868, by Henry Terry. There are five stores and
groceries in the town, two butcher-shops, one saloon, one saddle and
harness-shop, one shoe-shop, two wheelwrights, two blacksmiths, one tin-shop,
one hotel, one physician, one painter, one boarding-house, one school-house, one
Masonic and one I. 0. O. F. hall, one church; there are in all about twenty
business-houses, thirty residences, and a total population of about two hundred
and fifty souls. J. J. Lindsay is postmaster; W. Clark is Wells, Fargo & Co.'s
agent; T. J. Jones and Thomas McQuestion are justices of the peace.


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.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sonoma/history/1877/historic/windsor372nms.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/

File size: 3.3 Kb