Sonoma History
Sherry L Smith Presents Bohemians West: Free Love, Family, and Radicals in Twentieth Century America
In-person Lecture at the Sonoma Community Center in Room 110
Read MoreKim Bancroft, Ph.D. presenting I ‘Literary Industries’ Chasing a Vanishing West Historian of the American West and founder of the Bancroft Library
In-person Lecture at the Sonoma Community Center in Andrews Hall
Read MoreOctober 6, 2022 Benjamin Madley presents ‘American Genocide’ An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873.
Zoom lecture at 7 pm
Read MoreMay 14, 2022 from1 to 4pm Free Community Event in Depot Park – Music, Family Fun, Crafts, Quilt exhibit
Community Event -Music-Bloomfield Bluegrass Band; Art Quilt and Heritage Quilt Show at the Depot Park Museum, Children’s games; Craft demonstrations (spinning, Quilts for Kids to make, weaving and woodturning );…
Read MoreSonoma in Art Quilts and Heritage Quilts from the Sonoma Valley Historical Society Collections
Temelec Carriage HouseCaptain Granville Perry Smith built Temelec Hall and carriage house in 1858. The Structure is 60 by 40 feet built of native fieldstone with a wooden dovecote on…
Read MoreAbraham Lincoln and Sonoma – Part 1
Horatio Dawes Appleton flag Mariano Vallejo c 1865 Most Sonomans share with the rest of the country a profound admiration and often an affection for Abraham Lincoln. Generally unknown is…
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William B. Ide, c 1850 On the other hand, we have the case of John S. Bradford, the brother-in-law of the Bear Flagger, Dr. Robert Semple. Bradford was one of…
Read MoreAbraham Lincoln and Sonoma – Part 3
Senator James Semple Meanwhile John Bradford in California became interested in Sonoma politics. In the first state legislature where General Vallejo had been elected state senator from the Sonoma district,…
Read MoreNorthWestern Pacific Railroad in the Valley of the Moon
Take a trip from San Francisco ferry building to Glen Ellen from and how the resorts in the Valley were served by the railroad, through railroad abandonment and heavy freight…
Read More1919 – 1933 Prohibition in Sonoma and California Zoom Lecture
The Volstead National Prohibition Act was passed by the government in 1919, taking away Americans’ right to drink. It arguably remains one of the most devastating experiments in our country’s…
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