Reading the Healdsburg Enterprise of Feb. 21, 1878, I came across a feature article titled “The Legend of the Geysers”. It is a story about how the geyser area east of Healdsburg between there and Calistoga was discovered by the local Indians. You can read the article here and, for another take on the same … [Read more…]
Daily Alta California > 3 December 1857 — Information was given at the Police office yesterday, that a negro had been robbed by a hackman whose name we did not learn, but who is known by the name of “Sinbad,” an appropriate name, if the account given of him is correct. It appears that the … [Read more…]
Sonoma Democrat, 17 December 1857 BY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION issued out of the District Court of the Third Judicial District, in and for the County of Alameda, State of California, duly attested on the 4th day of June, A. D., 1857, and to me directed :Whereas a judgment was rendered in said Third Judicial … [Read more…]
Sonoma Democrat, 17 December 1857 We take the following account of the execution of three murderers at Sonora, Dec. 12th, from the Sonora Correspondent of the Morning Call: “The all-absorbing topic of conversation at this time is the hanging of Lyons, Poer and McAuley, for the murders perpetrated by them some time back. At ten … [Read more…]
Sonoma Democrat, 10 December 1857 Indians.— On Tuesday last, some twenty of the native Indians passed through this place on their way to the Reservation. They had been living, as they informed us, near Bodega, and becoming satisfied that the lot of those living on the Reservation, was more desirable than their own, had concluded … [Read more…]
It looks like reading old newspapers isn’t a new pastime and remains as addictive as ever … Sonoma Democrat > 10 December 1857 OLD CALIFORNIA PAPERS. Californian. — We are indebted to W. H. Crowell, our esteemed County Clerk, for the perusal of a file of the Californian, a weekly paper published in San Francisco … [Read more…]
Sonoma Democrat > 26 November 1857 Visit to Sonoma. — One day last week we visited the beautiful valley and city of Sonoma. It is one of the oldest settlements in the State, having been settled under the authority of the Mexican government, by Col. Vallejo, about the year 1830. Affording as this valley does, … [Read more…]
Sonoma Democrat, 12 November 1857 AFLOAT AND ASHORE. — It was feared in San Francisco last week (in which fears we truly shared) that Frank Sonle, Esp., had been lost in the brig J. B. Brown, which was wrecked at the mouth of the Albion river a short time ago. Happily, however, he turned up … [Read more…]
Well, I’ll be dimmed, who’d have thought that things like this would be happening on the open sea? In my brief 5 years on the main, I swear things like this never happened! SONOMA DEMOCRAT 19 November 1857 The P.M.S.S. Company. Give it to ’em.— The following from the Morning Call, gives a rather deplorable … [Read more…]
Sonoma Democrat > 29 October 1857 Arrival of the Steamer Panama. Two Weeks Later from the Atlantic States. Terrible Shipwreck and Loss of Lives! The mail steamship Panama, arrived at San Francisco on Thursday last, bringing the news of one of the most heartrending disasters that has ever taken place on our Coast, in the … [Read more…]