The Kashaya Indians made foot trails through the grassy mountain
slopes of Sonoma's northern coast for centuries before colonists
from the Russian-American Company arrived in 1812. These Russians,
the vanguard of European settlement, built Fort Ross from virgin
redwood on a bluff overlooking the sea. Although they stayed only
30 years, they left behind a heritage that includes the earliest
detailed scientific and ethnographic studies of the area and
California's first ships and windmills. Soon others came to ranch,
lumber, and quarry, shipping their harvest and stone to help build
and feed San Francisco. Ranches and mill sites evolved into towns,
often bearing the names of the rugged men who first settled there.
Much of the coastline remains as it was in centuries past, its rich
history still visible in ship moorings and chiseled sandstone, and
new residents and visitors are still drawn to this dramatic meeting
of blue Pacific and forested coastal mountains.
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