*** 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 88--- first physician in the place was Dr. Wilson, who sold out to Dr. Davis, the only physician now in Windsor. The first store was opened by a man named Buckalew, in 1856, on the lot where William Clark's dwelling now stands. About the same time Davis W. Graham started a blacksmith-shop. In 1857 Rosenberg & Linhemen bought the store. In 1861 Rosenberg & Bros. succeeded this firm, and built a large store- house, and kept it until 1870. They were succeeded by Kelsy & Livingston, who closed the business. The house is still used by T. J. Hopkins for a store. Kruse & Petray opened the second store in Windsor, in 1865, in a house which they built near where H. H. Lafferty's shoe-shop now stands. Harrison Barnes bought Kruse's interest, and sold out in 1867 to Crane, Hendley & Co., who were succeeded by Northcutt & Co., and they by Clark & Lindsay. The latter firm commenced business in 1871, and still continue. H. H. Lafferty started a shoe-shop in 1864, and still remains in the same place. In March, 1868, the town was located as a town-site under the State law. It was surveyed in October, 1868, by Henry Terry. There are five stores and groceries in the town, two butcher-shops, one saloon, one saddle and harness-shop, one shoe-shop, two wheelwrights, two blacksmiths, one tin- shop, one hotel, one physician, one painter, one boarding-house, one school- house, one Masonic and one I.O.O.F. hall, one church; there are in all about twenty business-houses, thirty residences, and a total population of about two hundred and fifty souls. J. J. Lindsay is postmaster; W. Clark is Wells, Fargo & Co's agent; T. J. Jones and Thomas McQuestion are justices of the peace. HEALDSBURG. Healdsburg is beautifully located on Russian river, near the confluence of Dry creek with that river. The town is built upon a gravelly plateau, lying between rich valleys; Russian River valley on the east, and Dry Creek valley on the west. The most striking feature of the landascape near Healdsburg is Sotoyome, sometimes less appropriately called Fitch moutain. It is a shapely, isolated hill, around the base of which Russian river winds a tortuous course, as if reluctant to leave the flowery and beautiful valley to mingle its waters with the sea. On an air line, Healdsburg is about sixty-five miles north of San Francisco; it lies a little west of north of that city, and is by railroad about thirty-five miles north of Petaluma, and is fifteen miles northerly from Santa Rosa. It is near the centre of the widely-famed Russian River valley, upon land formerly included within the bounds of the Sotoyome grant, owned by Henry D. Fitch. There were a few settlers in the valley in 1847, among them were the Fitchs', the Pinas', Cyrus Alexander, Frank Bedwell, the Gordons', Mose Carson and W. J. March. Among the earliest settlers, after the discovery of gold, was Lindsay Carson, T. W. Hudson and family, H. M. Willson and family, the Healds,--the first to come was Harmon G. Heald--J. G. McManus, E. H. Barnes, William Walters, Valentine Miller, A. B. Aull, H. P. Matheson, Aaron Hassett, John Hassett, Isaac Staly, J. C. Laymance, A. Rusak, and *** end ***