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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1HBC_wilmar-union-elementary-school-district-and-wilson-elementary-school_Petaluma-CA.html
Wilson Elementary School was established in 1863 to serve the ranch families of West Petaluma. In 1908 a larger school was needed. The new school housed 4 or 5 classrooms and an auditorium. A picture of this school, designed by locally famous architect Brai…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1HH5_buena-vista-refinery_McKittrick-CA.html
Eight miles due west of this marker stood one of California's first commercial oil refineries. Between August 1864 and April 1867, approximately 4,000 gallons of illuminating oil produced there was shipped to San Francisco by the Buena Vista Petroleum Compa…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1HIP_bridgeport-historic-district_Penn-Valley-CA.html
Built in 1862 by David J. Wood with lumber from his mill in Sierra County, the covered bridge was part of the Virginia Turnpike Company toll road that served the northern mines and the Nevada Comstock Lode. The associated ranch and resources for rest and re…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1HWU_the-sonoma-index-tribune_Sonoma-CA.html
The Sonoma Index was founded in 1879 by Benjamin Frank. It is the successor to the Sonoma Bulletin (1852-1855), the first California newspaper published north of San Francisco.
The Index was purchased in 1884 by Harry H. Granice, maternal grandfather of c…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1HWV_sonoma-valley-womens-club_Sonoma-CA.html
Sonoma Valley Women's Club was founded September 21, 1901 by eleven local women led by Martha Stearns.
In 1911 the lot at 574-First Street East was purchased by S.V.W.C. from Katherine Poppe on which their club house was to be built. Funds for the new clu…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1HWW_vella-cheese-factory_Sonoma-CA.html
This stone building, having withstood a fire and numerous earthquakes, was originally constructed in 1904 to house a brewery
During "Prohibition", in 1931, Gaetano "Tom" Vella and his wife, Zolita, Clerici Vella converted the building's…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1HWX_depot-hotel-cucina-rustica_Sonoma-CA.html
Giovanni Minoggio and Giacomo Mazza, on land purchased from General Mariano Vallejo, built this plumstone building in 1870. When the railroad tracks were extended to Sonoma and the Sonoma train depot built across the street from the Mazza House, the buildin…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1HWY_webster-house_Alameda-CA.html
This home built in 1854 for John Nelson Webster and Caroline Webster is Alameda's oldest house. The house is a primary example of Gothic Revival architecture by renowned architect Andrew Jackson Downing. The house was prefabricated in New York, shipped arou…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1HXH_the-council-house_San-Bernardino-CA.html
On this site the first public building erected in this county was the Council House. Built by Amasa Lyman and Charles C. Rich in 1853. Built of adobe, it was the central office of the Mormon interests both religious and secular. Later it was our first count…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1HXI_charles-c-rich-amasa-m-lyman_San-Bernardino-CA.html
In memory of
Charles C Rich
Amasa M Lyman
Builders of the Council House 1852
First school, church, and later Court House of this county.