From the map room — a Sanborn fire-insurance map of Glen Ellen in 1911. 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
C. F. Hugo Hadrich and family and John Brendel Jr. autoed from Santa Rosa and visited L. Breiten- bach and famiiy Friday. Mrs. L. Lewis Kopf and Mrs, H. Bayer of Santa Rosa autoed down to Sonoma and spent Satur- day with their sister, Mrs. L. Brei- tenbach, Dairy.maid’s supper, Union Hall, May 12th, under the auepices of the Ladies’ Aid Society of Congre- gational Church. Charming en- tertainment by the Milkmaids, followed by a delicious supper of strawber… — 1911-04-29
Rossi visited friends in Vineburg ; Louis Lamotte is spending the week in San )Francisco renewing old acquaintances. August Hackmier was in San Francisco last Saturday to take a look at President Billy Taft. Billy Clewe of Sonoma was a passenger for Santa Rosa on Satur- day evening’s Southern Pacific traia. Mrs. Tom Baines and son Nor- man, accompanied by Miss Hazel Baines, are visiting relatives in San Jose. Mrs. D. Crane and two sons are spending the wee… — 1911-10-21
NOTICE T A hr | : : Ab a own expense was accepted by the age week looking after his property ps Mm Beare peer oases : ; Frank Bocco, the well known re- | interests here. Hotz Building ; Ab | The public drinking fountain |sort keeper of Glen Ellen, died at a : ra eum ff erected on the north side of the|his home near that place last Sun-|, ene Ne Lae aan ee Broadway . . . ad ~ a A\ plaza by the Sonoma ie ae jek day morning. The deceased was ook a ee new ty e… — 1911-10-07
More of it is in the archive, and arranged by place in places in the archive.