The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Kenwood is located on the Rancho Los Guilicos Mexican land grant. In 1887, the Sonoma Land & Improvement Company, which owned the property on which the town now sits, laid out lots in anticipation of the railroad which would arrive the following year. The infant community tried on many names: Rohrerville, for one of the owners of the land company; Los Guilicos, and then South Los Guilicos, for the Mexican land grant.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Kenwood’s history is told.
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Kenwood, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Kenwood is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Kenwood has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is William Hood House in Santa Rosa, 2.9 miles away.
Kenwood and the nearest listed places
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.