From the map room — a Sanborn fire-insurance map of Glen Ellen in 1899. Drawn for insurers, these maps recorded every building in a town, street by street — a remarkably intimate snapshot of the valley’s towns a century ago.
What the paper was printing that year
county, July ranch near Iild Azel Agnew has accepted a posi- tion with Thos. Mordecai of Peta- luma and has already entered upon his duties at Mr. Robinson & Farrell, 711-715 Main strect, Petaluma, have just what you need in handsome surreys. They bandle all the Studebaker Vagos. * J. W. Kimble & Son, the Sebas- topol plumbers and sheet iron workers, are putting in the heat pipes and furnace in Al Griffith’s new fruit dryer at Vineburg. Maleolm Hlliett is… — 1899-07-15
THE PASSING OF A. PiQNZER WOMAN. Came to California in '49 and Located in This County- in 1852. , Mrs. Marie Christine Justi died at her home near Glen Ellen last Monday after a brief itlness. Mrs. Justi was almost the last of the pioneer women of Sonoma Val- ley. She came to California in 1849 in company with her husband, the late Capt. Justi, who died twelve years ago. Three years later they came to'this county and for several years Captain Justi was mas… — 1899-06-10
This week John’ Cooper pur- chased a large four-horse Stude- baker wagon from our local wagon dealer Julius Fochetti. Charley Hoy & Co., the Chinese firm, have purchased the old Perry Sears orchard comprising fourteen acres on Sonoma Ureek. Wanted—Position as nurse or companion by a refined Southern ‘lady of experience. Salary —no object. Call or address this office. George Green, the champion “welterweight pugilist of San Fran- cisco, was rusticating at t… — 1899-08-12
More of it is in the archive, and arranged by place in places in the archive.