From the map room — a Sanborn fire-insurance map of Sonoma in 1891. 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
T. B. Holmes, accompanied by his wife and children, left on Tuesday, the third inst., for North Lyme, New London county, Conneticut. He came to California three years ago, locating at El Verano, where for two years he ed- ited the Sonoma Valley Whistle. His bold, fearless pen commanded the respect of his contemporaries, the friend- ship of all who knew him and the ad- miration of every reader to his sparkling | weekly. He leaves in California many | friend… — 1891-02-18
| COMMENCEMENr EXeRGISES. |An Interesting Programme—The Graduates—Address by Trustee Poppe. The fifth annual commencement of the Sonoma Grammar School took place last night at Union Hall. Six graduates received diplomas, which in the absence of Mrs. Mar- tin, County School Superintendent, were conferred by Trustee Poppe. The graduates were Miss Effie Mc- Caskie, Hartley Gotteuberg, Oscar Campbell, Ralph Morris, Henry Carriger and Herbert Shaw. The essa… — 1891-05-23
IS HEREBY GIVEN BY THK UNDER. aN signed, “dministrator of the Estate o)) OLIVER W. CRAIG, deceased, to the Creditors of. and-all per yons having clainis against the said deceased, to ex- hibit them with the necessary vouchers, within ten months atter the first publication of this notice, to the said Administrator ut Sonoma Valley Bank, Sonoma the sume: being his place for the transaction of the-business of the said estate in the said County of Sguoma, Stit… — 1891-07-04
More of it is in the archive, and arranged by place in places in the archive.