Nina Sutcliffe

family history..
> Message: 17
> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 21:06:50 -0700
> From: Home Education Magazine <HEM-Editor@...>
> Subject: Re: redwoods and california
>
> At 7:30 PM -0700 4/5/01, Nina Sutcliffe wrote:
>> Small world! You certainly have some history in the area!!
>
> Well.... yeah... my great-great grandfather was one of the first
> people into what's now Sonoma County; his homestead was where the
> Santa Rosa airport is now. Burke Hill Road, somewhere up north on Hwy
> 101, is named for him. When it got too crowded around Santa Rosa he
> sold the homestead and took the first wheeled wagon into some big
> valley up by Ukiah.

That is so cool! We've been to the SR Airport lots (also Ukiah - great natural foods co-op there!) and I managed a barn about 10 minutes away from the Airport for a couple of years. It's kinda cool to hear some of the history of my old stompin' grounds!

I sold insurance a long time ago, and while doing some calls, I ended up talking to an older lady who had also grown up in Sonoma County, and she remebered when it was all fields and there was a train that went from Healdsburg to Santa Rosa (or Sebastopol.. I don't zackly remember...) It's so neat to get a glimpse into what an area used to look and be like... from an individual perspective. I love history in that way... from the stories of people.

Thanks!

Nina

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Lynda

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Nina, the train did a fork at Healdsburg.  You could go with the Express which went through SR (the old train depot and hotels which are all stone, are still standing and have been renovated) or the Local which went to Sebastopol.  The one that went to Sebastopol went riight down the middle of the street through downtown Sebastopol.  They only took those tracks up in the 70s.
 
The line still goes through SR and Healdsburg and will be up and running this summer.  By next summer they are hoping to have it open from Marin to Humboldt with excersion trains running.  They are buying up old Pullman's (real antiques with all that cush red velvet).
 
Lynda
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> Message: 17
> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 21:06:50 -0700
> From: Home Education Magazine <HEM-Editor@...>
> Subject: Re: redwoods and california
>
> At 7:30 PM -0700 4/5/01, Nina Sutcliffe wrote:
>> Small world! You certainly have some history in the area!!
>
> Well.... yeah... my great-great grandfather was one of the first
> people into what's now Sonoma County; his homestead was where the
> Santa Rosa airport is now. Burke Hill Road, somewhere up north on Hwy
> 101, is named for him. When it got too crowded around Santa Rosa he
> sold the homestead and took the first wheeled wagon into some big
> valley up by Ukiah.

That is so cool! We've been to the SR Airport lots (also Ukiah - great natural foods co-op there!) and I managed a barn about 10 minutes away from the Airport for a couple of years. It's kinda cool to hear some of the history of my old stompin' grounds!

I sold insurance a long time ago, and while doing some calls, I ended up talking to an older lady who had also grown up in Sonoma County, and she remebered when it was all fields and there was a train that went from Healdsburg to Santa Rosa (or Sebastopol.. I don't zackly remember...) It's so neat to get a glimpse into what an area used to look and be like... from an individual perspective. I love history in that way... from the stories of people.

Thanks!

Nina

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