*** 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 87--- steam-power press, and is equipped with a job office complete in all its appoint- ments. The Santa Rosa Daily Democrat was started in July, 1875, T. L. Thompson, proprietor; R. A. and T. L. Thompson, editors. The Daily Democrat has an increasing business, and labors zealously in the interest of Santa Rosa. It is published every afternoon from the Democrat building, on Exchange street, and contains the latest telegraphic reports from all parts of the world, up to the hour of going to press. THE SANTA ROSA PRESS AND TIMES. The Santa Rosa Press was started in 1874 by William A. Wheeler. It was published irregularly until December, 1875, when the material was purchased by G. H. Marr, who changed the name to the Santa Rosa Times, and has since continued the publication. The Times is Republican in politics, and receives a liberal support. Mr. Marr, the editor and proprietor, is an experienced newspaper man, and makes a readable and interesting journal. He has always exhibited a lively interest in all that would advance the welfare of Santa Rosa. The Times is published every Thursday morning; the publication rooms are on Fourth street. There is also a job office connected with the paper, in which excellent work of all kinds is executed. FULTON. Fulton is a flourishing town on the San Francisco and North Pacific Rail- road. It lies five miles north of Santa Rosa, and is the terminus of the branch railroad to Guerneville. This road was built in 1876, and makes Fulton a very lively railroad centre. The town was laid off in 1871 by Thomas and James Fulton, from whom it takes its name, two of the most worthy of the adopted sons of Sonoma. The town has one hotel, one variety, and one grocery store, one butcher shop, two blacksmith's shops, two saloons, one grain warehouse, one boot and shoe shop, and one freight and passenger depot. The postmaster is Thomas Fulton; ex- press agent, C. H. Bean. The annual shipments of produce are about 9,000 cords of wood, about 1,000 cords of tan-bark, 150 car loads of charcoal, and large quantities of lumber, wheat, fruit, butter, and general farm products. WINDSOR. The village of Windsor is located on the main county-road leading from Santa Rosa to Healdsburg, nine miles northwest from Santa Rosa and six miles southeast of Heldsburg; it is within less than a mile of the San Fran- cisco and North Pacific Railroad. The first we hear of Windsor as a town, or rather as a local habitation with a name, was in 1854, when a post-office was established, to which the first postmaster, Hiram Lewis, gave the name of Windsor, perhaps after Windsor park or forest--as the place was surrounded on all sides by trees, which gave it a park-like appearance. In 1857 Lewis sold it to Thad. Deshier. A man named Emmerson opened the first hotel, known as the Windsor hotel. The place is now owned (and is run as a hotel) by Thomas Hopkins. The *** end ***