Hannah Clayborn's History of Healdsburg
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My Healdsburg

  I wrote these articles between 1979 and 1993, during the time I served as the executive director of the Healdsburg Museum. We moved the expanded museum collection to the restored Carnegie Library building in 1990, the culmination of a wonderful, cooperative civic fundraising effort.
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     I was an enamored resident of Healdsburg and Dry Creek Valley for 13 years while I cared for and studied its history, leaving just before it turned into the tourist and wine destination that it is today. Revisiting these articles, revising and updating them, has been like falling in love again.

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List of Articles
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Cyrus Alexander and the Rancho Sotoyome

A San Diego Landlord: Captain Henry Delano Fitch 

The Piñas of Rancho Tzabaco

The Heald Family and the Birth of a Town
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Legends, Rumors, and Miscellany
 
Col. Roderick N. Matheson: City Builder and Civil War Hero
   
Squatter Captain Alexander Skaggs and His Hot Springs Resort


A Promised Land: the Healdsburg Squatters' War

Clark Foss:  the Most Famous Stagecoach Driver in the World
and the Geyser Springs


Festivals and Parades
     
The Fruits of our Labor: Agriculture


Roads, Ferries and Bridges

The Iron Horse 

The Chinese in Early Sonoma County 1850–1900
  
The Plaza


City Hall

​A Social History of the Healdsburg Public ​Library

Against the Wind: the Fight for Public Utilities 

Bikers Become Outlaws:  the Healdsburg Wheelmen

Schools
   
Bootlegging and Prohibition

The Great Depression

The Automobile and Healdsburg

The Albanian Literary and Military Society and The Ladies Improvement Club
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Coming Soon:
The First Flying Machine: the Amazing Flight and Crash of Fred Young
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The Untold Stories

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​All history is local.
        ~ Joseph Amato

Visit the Healdsburg Museum at 221 Matheson Street.
For more information go to:  
healdsburgmuseum.org

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I appreciate your comments and corrections.
Above and Below: the town of Healdsburg and the Russian River Valley, from A Bird's Eye View of Healdsburg, 1876; Glover;  A.L. Bancroft Co.
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