page_title: Sonoma, California
section_title: Historic sites
hierarchical_section_title: Sonoma, California / See also / Historic sites
caption_attribution_description: downtown Sonoma. From the plaque: Erected by General Mariano G. Vallejo about 1840 for the accommodations of emigrants and other travelers. Purchased in Gold Rush Days by Cooper and Spriggs, two retired sea-faring men and operated as hotel and store. Among first hostelries in Northern California. Notable guests, according to local tradition, included John C. Fremont, U.S.Grant, Governor Pio Pico, Kit Carson, “Fighting Joe” Hooker, William T. Sherman, Phil Sheridan and members of the Bear Flag Party. Classed among the notorious visitors were Bandit Murietta and “Three-Fingered Jack.” This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 75000489
context_page_description: Sonoma is a city in Sonoma County, California in Sonoma Valley. Known as a part of Wine Country in the Sonoma Valley AVA Appellation, Sonoma is the home of the Sonoma International Film Festival and an historic town plaza, a remnant of the town's Mexican colonial past. Sonoma's population was 10,648 as of the 2010 census, while the Sonoma urban area had a population of 32,678.
context_section_description: Sonoma can boast three of the first ten California Historical Landmarks:
  Mission San Francisco Solano (#3) - On July 4, 1823, Padre José Altamira founded the northernmost of California's Franciscan missions here, the only one established in California under independent Mexico.
  The home of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (#4) - known as Lachryma Montis (Tears of the Mountain), was built in 1850.
  Bear Flag Monument (#7) - On June 14, 1846, the Bear Flag Party raised the Bear Flag in the Sonoma plaza and declared California free from Mexican rule.
  The Presidio of Sonoma, the northernmost Mexican military post, still stands facing the plaza.
  The city has established about 90 city historic landmarks.
caption: Blue Wing Inn
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