Title documents and agreements documenting the history of land ownership changes from 1979 to 1986. For a discussion of these documents, see the January 14, 2016 article in The Sonoma Valley Sun. August 6, 1979: 1979-Title-Transfer-to-NFA May 11, 1981: 1981-Title-Transfer-to-County May 20, 1983: 1983-(May)-County-NFA-Agreement June 30, 1983: 1983-(June)-County-Approval January 19, 1986: 1986-NFA-Grant-Deed…

From 10 AM to 6 PM This Friday, June 26, at the FAHA cafe on Verano Avenue in El Verano,  the Friends of Maxwell Park  will host nine short, 45 minute community workshops. Each workshop will focus on a different core issue facing Maxwell Park users, planners and managers as…

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Any serious legal researcher or historian visiting the public offices of the Sonoma County Recorder will be grateful for the State of California’s carefully preserved extensive historical and legal records of births, deaths, marriages, and land ownership. This extensive collection of land maps and deeds extends from the earliest recorded…

For thousands of years travelers going east or west across the center of Sonoma Valley have crossed Sonoma creek where it merges with Agua Caliente Creek in El Verano. And for just as many years the land leading to this popular creek crossing has been contested territory. The first story…

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