The following snippets of history are drawn from the pages of the Healdsburg Tribune, the Healdsburg Enterprise and the Sotoyome Scimitar. The photos are from the archives of the Healdsburg Museum & Historical Society.
FEBRUARY 9, 1917
Big Tie Camp for Mill Creek
Arrangements are now being made for putting a large force of men to work in the timber on the property belonging to Messrs. Hall and Ogelsbie on Mill Creek. A big tie camp is being fitted up there and half a hundred men or more will be engaged for several years in cutting timber and getting out ties. At the present time cottages are being built there for the workmen. J.M. Davis has secured the timber on the place and will have charge of the cutting. It is the intention of Mr. Davis to send the ties to Santa Rosa by truck and from there they will be taken to the market over the electric railroad. Every enterprise of this kind is an aid to this locality, and all are glad to see them started.
FEBRUARY 9, 1967
“Healdsburg Story” Film Will be Congress Feature
“The Healdsburg Story” – a series of colored slides of what’s good and bad about the community – will be previewed by the general committee Tuesday night in prelude to the Congress for Community Progress which will be held February 25. “This,” said general chairman Homer Hoyt, during yesterday’s meeting of the Chamber – which is sponsoring the Congress, “will be the kick-off to the Congress which we hope will be attended by at least 200 residents. Matter of fact, we’re hoping for 300, and shooting for 500. We don’t expect to solve all the community’s problems at the Congress, but there will undoubtedly be five or six projects into which the community can sink its teeth. The secret of success, however, will be the participation of many, many residents. The panels are important, but it will be the people in the audience that will make the Congress go.”
FEBRUARY 9, 1992
Flood Threat Passes, Rainfall Raises Lake
A week of rain may not spell the end of the five-year drought for most of California, but the storms that have dropped more than eight inches of rain in the past seven days on Healdsburg add up to a rosy water picture for Sonoma County residents. While the continuous rains have filled reservoirs, the threat of flooding in the Russian River has apparently passed. The storms that have dominated the weather since last Sunday have raised Lake Sonoma to 81 percent of its capacity, according to the Sonoma County Water Agency. Prior to the storms, the reservoir was at 68 percent of its capacity.
