*** 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 92--- sixteen miles northeast, and the Great Eastern and Mount Jackson mines, whose business place is Healdsburg, are sixteen miles southwest. Want of space prevents us from writing more of this beautiful city. The subject grows on us, and we leave it with regret. HEALDSBURG EXPORTS FOR 1876. Grapes, boxes .............................. 6,700 Dried fruit, pounds ...................... 138,600 Green " " .............................. 84,150 Miscellaneous mdse, pounds................ 171,765 Vegetables, " ................. 138,980 Wool, " ................. 148,867 Tan bark, " .................. 80,000 Hops, " .................. 36,250 Hides and tallow, " .................. 69,700 Wine, gallons.............................. 10,732 Grain, tons................................. 1,245 Lumber, feet.............................. 187,500 Leather, sides.............................. 5,880 Flour, barrels................................ 646 Live stock, cars.............................. 252 Poultry, coops................................ 131 Wood, cords.................................... 92 Eggs, boxes.................................... 44 Quicksilver, flasks........................... 322 GEYSERVILLE. Geyserville is a village and post-office on the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad, about twenty-four miles north of the county-seat, Santa Rosa. It was settled by Dr. Elisha Ely in 1851. The first business-house was a store started in 1854 by Colonel A. C. Godwin, who afterwards located the Geyser springs. Colonel Godwin went east in 1861, and was killed in the civil war. At present there is one store in the village, one post and express-office, one saloon, one hotel, and one blacksmith-shop. The hill-land about Geyserville is well adapted to fruit-culture, especially to the growth of wine-grapes. It would not surprise us if the wines of that section would become famous. There is every essential in soil and climate for the growth of the best varieties of grapes, stone and seed fruits. CLOVERDALE. Far up the valley, where the hills draw together, with Russian river flowing between, is snugly nestled the town of Cloverdale. It is a few miles south of the northern boundary of the county. North of Cloverdale for one hundred miles on the waters of Russian river and its tributaries, there are a series of small, beautiful and fertile valleys, separated by spurs from the main range, which extend as bluffs to the river, and link the valleys as a chain. The hills *** end ***