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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XOK_comstock-house-restoration-historical_Santa-Rosa-CA.html
The 1905 Comstock House is undergoing a restoration. This house was designed by local architect Brainerd Jones, who also created most of the buildings in Petaluma's historic core as well as the nearby Belvedere. Jones included may whimsical feat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XOC_sturgeons-mill-historical_Sebastopol-CA.html
The California Gold Rush of 1849 and San Francisco's Earthquake of 1906 spurred expansion, rebuilding and extensive timber processing in California. Sturgeons Mill is a fine example of 1800's steam powered technology, providing lumber for earl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XOB_luther-burbanks-garden-historical_Santa-Rosa-CA.html
1881 - In This Garden - 1926 Luther Burbank wrought with living plants to bring the world greater fertility, wealth and beauty developing new varieties which produced better fruits and more beautiful flowers.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XO5_korbel-station-historical_Guerneville-CA.html
This was the terminus of the "Fulton-Guerneville" branch of the Northwestern Pacific Railway which began operations on May, 29, 1872. The purpose of the railway was to replace the slow oxen team method of hauling timber and passengers to San Ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XO4_duncans-mills-depot-museum-historical_Duncans-Mills-CA.html
Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railroad Company wooden box cars nos. 100 and 102 (original numbers 66 and 68) were built in the P.&S.R. Petaluma shops in May 1910/ Salvaged at Cotati and restored by Duncans Mills Trading Co. July to Nov. 1982. North Sho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XNU_march-heald-flour-mill-historical_Healdsburg-CA.html
Millstone from pioneer flour and saw mill built by William March and Samuel Heald on Mill Creek in 1849.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XNT_the-wohler-ranch-1856-historical_Healdsburg-CA.html
In 1856, 1500 acres of the 17,892 acre Rancho El Molino were a "gift of love" to Mariano Vallejo's niece Anna Wohler. In the 1880's hops pioneer Raford Peterson purchased the land and built the "The House on the Hill," where his family lived for 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XNS_the-moscow-barn-historical_Monte-Rio-CA.html
This building originally located 1500 feet east of this location and housing livestock, was built by a pioneer family from this area in the early 1870's. Once part of the historic Bodega Rancho, this land was known as the Rancho Paridiso and later…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XNR_sturgeons-mill-historical_Sebastopol-CA.html
In 1913 Wade Sturgeon purchased 1850's sawmill equipment from the Korbel Brothers and operated the mill from 1914 through 1923 on Coleman Valley Road. It was then disassembled and moved seven miles inland by horse-drawn sleds and wagons to its pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XNO_first-power-commercial-sawmill-historical_Forestville-CA.html
In 1834, Mariano G. Vallejo's brother-in-law, John B.R. Cooper, constructed California's first known power-operated commercial sawmill. In addition to sawing redwood lumber, the mill and settlement served as a barrier to Russian encroachment from …
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