*** 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 41--- Lockley. It was a small Gothic church of great beauty. It cost about three thousand dollars, and it was burned a few years ago. The next year another was built by the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the same town, that is still standing. About the same time Rev. M. Riley, of the Baptist church, built a house of worship at the site of the old town of Franklin, near Santa Rosa. This house was regarded as a Union church for the Hardshells and the Missionary Baptists. It was subsequently moved to Santa Rosa, and used by the Baptists until they erected their present house, when it was converted into a double tenement-house and as such it now stands. Of the forty-five churches now standing the Methodist Episcopal Church owns twelve; the Catholic, six; the Methodist Episcopal South, six; the Presbyterian, four; the Baptist, three; the Congregationalists, three; the Christian (Campbelite), three; the Adventist, three; the Protestant Episcopal, two; the Cumberland Presbyterian, one; the colored people, one; and one is owned jointly by the Methodist Episcopal Church South, the Baptist and Christians. They are distributed as follows; Santa Rosa has eight; Petaluma, seven; Healdsburg, seven; Sonoma, three; Bodega Corners, three; Bloom- field, three; Cloverdale, two; Sebastopol, two; Green Valley, one; Pleasant Hill, one; Valley Ford, one; Two Rocks, one; Howard's Station, one; Ben- nett Valley, one; Guerneville, one; Fulton Station, one; Macedonia, one; Windsor, one. We do not give the assessed value of the church property because the figures on the assessors' books are much below the real value. The inhabitants gener- ally are a moral, law-abiding people, who contribute literally to the support of the churches in their midst. Long before any of the churches here mentioned were built or thought of, the chime of bells in the Greek chapel at Ross floated out over the waters of the Pacific. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. The public buildings of the Sonoma county are not worthy of much, if any, notice. The court house was built in 1859, and answers the purpose for which it was intended, and that is all that can be said of it. The recorder's office is pronounced a very creditable building; it stands by itself, and was erected in 1871-2, and is a neat, substantial, if not elegant struc- ture. It is entirely fire-proof, and the valuable records of the county within its walls are free from danger. The county possesses two institutions of which the people may justly feel a pride; we refer to the hospital and county farm. Both of the institutions are well managed, and in the hospital all the comforts which could be asked are furnished to the indigent sick of the county. The hospital and county farm are directly under the control of Dr. J. B. Gordon. William Strom, a most excellent person for the special duties required, is steward of the hospital, and the manager of the county farm is Robinson Head. The number of persons admitted to the hospital during the year was 177; discharged cured 152, died 20, remaining January 1st, 1877, 31; county farm, whole number January, 1876, 13; admitted during the year 12, discharged 13; number remaining January 31st, 1877, 12. *** end ***