Identifier: historyofsonomac02greg (find matches)
Title: History of Sonoma County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county, who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present time
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Gregory, Thomas Jefferson. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal., Historic record company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rianwith the dust of lost civilizations in his whiskers, will turn from Troy, Thebes.Baalbec and other municipal Has-Beens, to burrow deep in excavations ofFranklin Town; and there will discover the ruins of a Colts-44 with many mys-terious notches on its barrel; or a fossil half-plug of tobacco with teeth mark-ings at one corner; or a metal plate bearing the talismanic word, which—though untranslatable into any modern tongue—appears to be tomandjerry;and which did some household duty like the Latin Cave Canem (Beware ofthe Dog) found on the doorsteps of buried Pompeii. Thus will the delightedarchaeologist discourse learnedly on his find, and report to the Institute ofScientific Research that beyond all reasonable doubt even of a man from Mis-souri, a peaceable, moral and highly cultured people formerly inhabitated thiscounty; but the causes of their destruction, or migration, are unknown, and nosample of gun, plug or talismanic word can be found in the adjacent city ofSanta Rosa.
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HISTORY OF SONOMA COUNTY 159 CHAPTER XXXII. MAPPING OUT THE CITY OF THE ROSE. Meanwhile the original survey- of Santa Rosa was made and the landlying between the streets First and Fifth, and Washington and a line drawn fivelots east of E, was mapped out for the city. According to an agreement JulioCarrillo donated one-half of the central square for a plaza and Hoen and Hah-mann the other, or east-half. A grand grove of oaks grew on the portion givenby the firm, and there was an understanding that this would not be removed;but when and where was an American woodsman known to spare a tree hecould get his axe into? There is a national vandalism in the blood of this peo-ple—a destroying microbe ranging fancy free. Whether it came over in theMayflower or anv other immigrant ship, or was a self-creation here, occasionedby the presence of the newly-arrived whiteman and the wide scope of countryfor him to destroy in, bacteriology fails of solution. Conservation may run riotthrough American

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