*** Source: Thompson, Robert A., Historical and descriptive sketch of Sonoma County, California. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1877, 122 pgs. Notice: This data is donated to the Public Domain by TAG, 2004, and may be copied freely by anyone to anywhere. *** ---page 40--- are girls. The schools are comprised within their grades; first, second and third--there being 50 of the first; 58 of the second, and 30 of the third. The total enrolment of pupils at the school is 6,217. Between eighty-five and ninety thousand dollars are annually received from State and county taxes for school purposes. Of this amount between seventy- five and eighty thousand dollars are annually expended in the payment of teachers. About $3,000 is annually invested in school libraries. The average monthly wages paid male teachers is $83.00; paid female teachers, $64.00. Ninety-one of the schools are maintained more than six, and less than eight months; 47 are maintained eight months and over. The most of the school- houses are substantial, comfortable structures, well supplied with school furniture, apparatus and libraries. The value of the school-houses and lots is estimated at $150,000; school libraries, $12,000; apparatus, $4,000. The most important schools are those of Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Healdsburg, Sonoma and Cloverdale. The cities of Santa Rosa and Petaluma, in addition to a most efficient grammar school, have each an excellent high school. Number of children between five and seventeen, white.... 7,300 " " " " " " " negro.... 10 " " " " " " " Indian... 73 " " white children under five..................... 3,076 " " children who have attended public school during the school year........................ 5,407 Number attending private schools........................ 413 Number who have not attended any school................. 1,563 Whole number of school districts........................ 95 " " " schools/................................ 138 " amount paid teachers during the year.............. $75,320.00 " " " for rents, repairs and contingents.... 8,400.00 " " " libraries............................. 2,185.35 " " " apparatus............................. 408.06 Amount paid for buildings and school furniture.......... 7,137.18 Total receipts from State and county fund............... 84,676.90 " " " district taxes........................ 5,269.24 " " during the year, including balance on hand at beginning of the year.................. 115,490.20 Total disbursements..................................... 93,452.00 Salary of superintendent, inclusive of traveling expenses, $1,600 per annum. CHURCHES AND CHURCH PROPERTY. There is, perhaps, no county in the state of California that can boast of as many houses of worship as Sonoma, unless it be San Francisco. There are in all forty-three, and these are well distributed over the county. The first Protestant church was built in the town of Sonoma by the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in the year 1852, under the late Rev. E. B. *** end ***