Healdsburg’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Healdsburg. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Early inhabitants of the local area included the Pomo people, who constructed villages in open areas along the Russian River. Anglo-American and Russian settlement may have commenced in the mid-19th century, with a settlement nearby, established downstream along the Russian River near Graton, in 1836, and later the Rancho Sotoyome land grant, in 1844.
In 1857, Harmon Heald, an Ohio businessman who had been squatting on Rancho Sotoyome since 1850, purchased part of the rancho—giving the city its official founding date. In 1867, Heald's eponymous small town was incorporated. Healdsburg is located within the former township of Mendocino. The San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad reached Healdsburg in 1872.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Healdsburg’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Healdsburg’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewFelta Schoolhouse Sonoma County C…, c. 1910: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Healdsburg
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Healdsburg, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Roderick N. Matheson San Francisco 1849 or 1850 (1849) and it appears here side by side.
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From Wikimedia Commons (3) and the National Register (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.