Summer 2020 Volume 30, Issue 2...portant now as we focus our efforts on developing what I’m calling: Museum 2.0. Our efforts so far broadly fall into three parts: 1. Our HistoryTellers

Summer 2020 Volume 30, Issue 2

Petaluma MuseumAssociation Board

Executive Officers:President: Clint Gilbert

Vice President: Debbie CountouriotisTreasurer: Erica Barlas, CPA

Recording Secretary: Kit Schlich

Directors:Madeline Backman

Jamieson BunnKathy FriesRob Girolo

Kate HawkerElece HempelFreyda Ravitz

Katie O’Neill TranElizabeth WalterMarshall West

Parks & Recreation Dept.Drew Halter

Recreation Music and ParksCommission

Megan Kelly, Representative

Historic and Cultural PreservationCommittee

Kit Schlich, Representative

Staff:Liz Cohee, Museum Coordinator

Mary Rowe, Membership &Newsletter Editor

Solange Russek, Collections Manager

The Petaluma Museum AssociationNewsletter is published quarterly and

distributed to its members. Manythanks to all the contributors and the

proofreaders and volunteerswho help with mailings.

If you would like to contribute any newsor items of interest to our newsletter,

you can [email protected]

Deadline for submission is Sept 1, 2020

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Petaluma Museum Association20 Fourth St.

Petaluma, CA 94952

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Greetings, PMA Supporters,

Even as many of us work to envisionwhat our Museum will look like in apost-pandemic world, I’m havingtrouble remembering the Museum asit once was. I feel empty as I pass byour historic 1906 Carnegie Librarybuilding these days and look for

signs of life. I see the building yet it feels like some-thing is missing.

Finding our unique essence seems especially im-portant now as we focus our efforts on developingwhat I’m calling: Museum 2.0.

Our efforts so far broadly fall into three parts:1. Our HistoryTellers program will create originalcontent for our website, exhibits and publications topreserve the memories and experiences that localpeople have to tell.2. New technologies, including QR Codes and pro-duced audio and video pieces, will enrich the Muse-um experience while allowing us to maintainevolving social distancing requirements.3. Online access to both our Past Perfect ArchivalSystem and much of our Research Library willenable the public greater remote access to ourresources.

In the next issue you will be hearing more aboutitems 2 and 3 above, but for now I want to tell youmore about our HistoryTellers project.

Petaluma HistoryTellers aims to preserve the sto-ries of Petaluma in short videos that will appear onour website and will be used to add depth andcontext to our exhibits. Please check out the story“Braiding Rugs” https://youtu.be/d-T_ClAt2-M to geta sense of the simple style and emotional weightthis format carries while relating a family history.

The HistoryTellers project features an enviable as-semblage of historical knowledge and talent amongits advisory board. From our Museum we havenoted author and historian John Sheehy and HarlanOsborne who pens the “Toolin’ Around” column inthe Argus-Courier.

We also have author Katherine J. Rinehart, theChair of the Sonoma County Heritage Network, and

Connie Williams who is the History Room Librarianat the Petaluma Library. Completing the advisoryboard is video producer and StoryCenter FacilitatorLou Zweier along with myself. The board is buildinga list of HistoryTellers and will decide on an order inwhich to produce their stories. We will have our firstmeeting later this month.

Have a HistoryTeller to suggest to our advisoryboard or other suggestion or comment? I’m righthere: [email protected]

In other goings on:Our volunteer ranks swelled in May with more thana dozen talented historical re-enactment folks whenthe Petalumans of Yesteryear officially joined us asa committee of the PMA. They are working to createfresh video content for children’s treasure hunts,downtown school tours and social media posts. AsPOY member, Linda Buffo, wrote recently: “…theylook not only to educate but to light a spark ofinterest and excitement in our children so that theymay fall in love with the history of their town.”

Speaking of social media: I have so much respectfor Kathy Barron-Fries’ recent rejuvenation of ourFacebook and Instagram feeds. She is lookingforward to taking an intensive social media trainingwith Kerry Rego who is probably responsible for theway our City’s social media has “blown up.”

Separated by a pandemic, your Museum staff andvolunteers are coming together online to preservethe heart of our Association.

Curious about the QR Code technology? This codewill take most modern smartphones to our websitejust by pointing its camera at the code. Try it!

Until we meet again, perhaps even in person!

Clint Gilbert, your PMA president

Petaluma Museum Association Newsletter – Summer 2020

Message from the President

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Recent tragic events have swept our nation and our world into a powerfuloutcry for equality and justice. One man’s death has galvanized people’sconsciousness in a way that past atrocities failed to do. George PerryFloyd’s unconscionable murder by law enforcement has engendered aninternational outcry that cannot be ignored.

The Petaluma Museum Association stands in solidarity with all those whohave suffered the effects of prejudice and intolerance. “Black Lives Matter”formed as a movement not only to express outrage and demand changebut also to educate Americans about past wrongs and misconceptions.

We who form the PMA Board of Directors believe the accurate account ofhistory is a sacred obligation for future generations. History teaches us andguides us to be better as we create a stronger, more diversified future. Tothat goal, the PMA endeavors to tell our human story as truthfully aspossible, relying on artifacts and published material in our archives.

The PMA vows to tell our local history from the vantage point of all thosewho have called the Petaluma area their home. That includes all races,ethnicities, religions, gender identifications and political persuasions.

We will not flinch from telling unlovely truths about our past as we createfuture history exhibits and presentations. We pledge never to whitewashour history. We rely on our membership and the viewing public to helpcorrect our past errors and misconceptions.

As Americans we must always remember the words from our Constitution’spreamble “to form a more perfect Union.” That includes scrupulous honestyabout our past.

A Message from the PMA Board of Directors


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THE AMAZINGCAVANAGH Clan ofPetaluma helped

shape our town for overfour generations. Theirunique story is one ofpioneer gumption galore,and it all started in 1850,when the ambitious 26-year-old Irish immigrantJohn Cavanagh spent sixgrueling months at sea,sailing around the horn toSan Francisco to get tothe gold fields.

However, as most gold seekershad found by the end of 1850, thegold was either already staked-outor gone. It’s not recorded how wellJohn did in his efforts there, but heonly spent six weeks in the moun-tains prior to coming to SonomaCounty to buy a 160-acre ranch onthe Russian River, near what isnow the town of Windsor. But then,in 1857, John Cavanagh found outthat Petaluma Creek had access toS.F. Bay and the sea for com-merce, and he sold his river prop-erty (at a profit), and moved toPetaluma to acquire the rights toseveral mountain water springsand to found Petaluma‘s first WaterWorks, piping that valuable com-modity 4.5 miles into thevillage. Schools and fire pro-tection got free water, buthomes, saloons, hotels andhorse trough owners wouldpay for it.

John Cavanagh was toughas well as ambitious, and in1862 he was elected Peta-luma’s first City Marshall.The moniker “Marshall” wasto stick with him for life andlater, in 1866, he also be-came Petaluma’s Justice ofthe Peace.

But 1867 was the banner year forthe emerging Cavanagh clan, asJohn sold his piece of the WaterWorks to buy the property near thehead of Petaluma Creek (now theGrocery Outlet Mall) and to open

his Cavanagh LumberCompany there.

One hundred bucks in1867 would be worth$1,748 today, and withthose low digit numbers,Petaluma’s professor Ed-ward Lippett opened aschool at 626 D Street,pioneer Tom Baylis orga-nized our first library bydonating 2,000 books,the city bought a horse-drawn pumper wagon

(see it in our Museum) for the fireladdies, and Morse & Woodworthwere running a daily stage line forU.S. mail to Cloverdale, with stopsin Santa Rosa, Healdsburg andGeyserville. Things were lookingup!

1867 was also a banner year forour country, then heading out ofCivil War Reconstruction. Nebras-ka won statehood that year and theAlaska Purchase was also com-pleted. African American men (onlythe men) won the right to vote andthe first travelers trudged with theirhorses and wagons over the Chish-olm Trail from Texas to Kansas.Bad news however, was the terri-ble virus yellow fever, which killedover 3,100 just in semi-tropical

New Orleans alone.

Cavanagh Lumber was thefirst such in Petaluma andsupplied most of the lumberfor the homes, barns and, aspoultry ranches had startedto boom, hundreds of red-wood chicken coops formiles around. It shipped

Petaluma History & Commentaryby Skip Sommer, Historian

Cavanagh Lumber Co. Ca 1950’sPhoto: Courtesy, The Sonoma County Library

1867 Stage Coach


lumber down-creek to SanFrancisco, Sacramento andOakland via shallow-draftscow schooner. The busi-ness was to stay within thefamily for four more genera-tions and was a vital link inthe building of our city.

In early years, the lumberwas delivered by horse andwagon all over Sonoma Coun-ty. One of those horses,named “Charley,” becamewell known and loved by our wholecommunity. At days-end, he wouldtravel from the lumber yard to theCavanagh home at #10 KellerStreet without even being led, andfor 20 years he was cherished byall. When Charley fell and died,many tears were shed here.

John had married Delia Carrigan in1860 and they were to have 11children, only seven of whom livedto maturity. One of those survivorswas John Edward (“J.E.“), whoinherited the business in 1899 after“The Marshall” died. J.E. Married

Nellie Ingram and was uniquelyknown for his formality: always wear-ing starched white shirt collars andcuffs. Despite new competition fromthe Hopkins Lumber Company andoccasional floods that floated hun-dreds of boards down creek, thebusiness continued to thrive. AsPetaluma grew, so did CavanaghLumber.

J.E. and Nellie lived in the 1902Georgian Revival home on KellerStreet. In 1913, a Craftsman-stylecottage was added to the property

for fourth generation “Jack”and his wife, Viola Sartori.In later years, this becamethe Cavanagh Inn Bed &Breakfast, and is todaycommercial office spaceowned by Colleen Mahon-ey, (a descendant of an-other great early Petalumafamily).

Cavanagh Lumber was aPetaluma landmark for over100 years and Jack Ca-

vanagh served an unprecedentedseven terms on our City Council.Cavanagh Park, Cavanagh Lane andCavanagh Boys and Girls Club onEighth Street are named for him. Asa side note, this writer will alwaysremember the help that Jack Ca-vanagh unselfishly afforded me,when I first moved to our town in1975, to rehabilitate the old Mc-Near Mill. Thanks, Jack. (I knowyou’re reading this). ■

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1860’s lumber wagon

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The members of the Petalumans of Yesteryear (POY)were overjoyed to become an official committee of thePMA. As such they will have a closer relationship withthe board and continue to provide historic eventsthrough living history. A special thank you to Clint andthe board for helping get this in place.

Marshall West transferred funds from the disbandedPetaluma Historical Society over to the PMA helping tobuild the PMA budget in the name of the POY.

This pandemic does not halt the passion of the POY tobring local history to life for our community and visitors.

Currently the group is working on providing support tothe education committee by putting together a seriesof vignettes to be filmed in costume around towncreating a virtual “Treasure Hunt” for school children.

The personas will be filmed in locations relevant to theirlife in Petaluma and the children will be challenged tofind these “Treasure” spots throughout our historicdowntown.

Along with the “Treasure Hunt,” the POY are alsofilming short snippets of their personas for the PMAFacebook page and working up a program around thesuffrage movement in Petaluma. POY member K.C.Greaney has offered to do a spotlight as Benicia Vallejoto help children learn about the Mexican story in thePetaluma area.

Keeping history alive is the task while inspiring the loveof history is the goal of this energetic group. Watch forthem around town in costume at a safe distance.

Do you know an historic Petaluma home that has received a well-executed restoration? It could be yours, a neighbor’sor a just a house you drive by as you tool around town.

Heritage Homes & Landmarks of Petaluma seeks nominations for the 2020 Preservation Awards from the communityat large. This committee presents awards for residential and commercial restoration projects which promote thepreservation of Petaluma's unique architectural and historic heritage. HH&L also bestows awards for:• new construction that is compatible with surrounding historic structures,• craftsmen who demonstrate outstanding talent in the building industry,• individuals who have made significant contributions to the cause of local preservation.

Nominations must be for work completed between July 2017 and June 2020, and will be accepted through July 30,2020. Anyone may submit multiple nominations; please use a separate form for each nomination. To download thenomination form, please visit www.petalumamuseum.com and click on the 2020 Preservation Awards link under“Events.” Mail entries to HH&L Preservation Award Entries, Petaluma Museum Association, 20 Fourth Street,Petaluma, CA 94952.

Winners will be announced in September 2020.

HH&L Seeks Nominees for Preservation Awards


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Solange RussekMuseum Collections Manager

Thank you to Doreen Schneider who donated photos of theinside of Earle Bond’s home located on the second floor ofthe historic Mutual Relief building at 25 Western and FourthStreet. Earle Bond, beloved musician and artist had manyfriends that gave him the lavish furniture to decorate hishome. Doreen was an early member of Heritage Homes.

These newspaper clips are excerpts from an article writtenby Bill Soberantes after Earle’s passing and appeared in thePetaluma Argus-Courier on December 10, 1989.



From PMA Collections:Clara Belle Sproul’s 1876-1877

Petaluma High School Autograph Book

The PMA thanks Sue Canavan for her 2015 donation of Clara BelleSproul’s journals from 1914 to 1939. Clara Belle's accounts are used bythe Petalumans of Yesteryear for their living history program. Click on thislink to read more about Clara Belle, “The Princess of Petaluma,” byMichael Slade, pg. 9.

https://www.petalumamuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2016-Spring-Summer-PMA-Newsletter-for-the-web.pdf

Clara Belle Sproul and her classmates were the children of Petaluma’soriginal pioneer families. Many of them became involved in Petalumabusinesses and married into other pioneer families, becoming leadingmembers of the community. Here are some of the well-known Petalumanames that appear in Clara Belle’s yearbook.

Arthur Whitney, (born May 26, 1857 died in 1914), son of Albion Whitney, was a Petaluma merchant and then statesenator. Arthur married Anna St. John in November 1882; they resided at 3116 Washington Street, San Francisco,CA. Here is an excerpt from the San Jose Mercury News about Arthur by Michael Svanevik and Shirley Burgett(published April 12, 2017; updated May 11, 2017): “Commercial production along the Peninsula began as early as the1890s. In 1895, brothers C.E. and Arthur L. Whitney (a graduate of the University of California) settled in San Mateo.Christian de Guigné and John Stauffer, owners of the Stauffer Chemical Co. and big users of salt, were companydirectors. The firm garnered an empire of 3,000 acres, mainly marshland, on the east side of the railroad tracks. Theirworld extended to the north from Nineteenth Avenue, where they began the process of building evaporation ponds.Soon referred to as the Salt King, Arthur Whitney assumed control of the company in 1902. He worked with his threesons: Merrill, St. John and Leslie. Their headquarters, also in San Mateo, included a train stop at what they calledLeslie Station. Years later, Leslie Station was designated Hayward Park.”

Research and write-up of names below is credited to Katherine Rinehart, historian.

Frank Denman was the son of Ezekiel Denman and brother to Ida Belle Denman, who married George PlummerMcNear. Frank, in certain terms, was “shoved” into the banking business by his father, who was a banking pioneer.Frank studied as an engineer/surveyor and graduated from the University of California in 1877, then worked as acounty surveyor from 1881-1886. You can read more on Frank on newspapers.com (Santa Rosa Republican;Tuesday, March 9, 1948, page 16).

Nellie Denman, sister to Frank and Ida Belle Denman, graduated from Mills Seminary (now known as Mills College)in 1874. She was Ezekiel Denman’s daughter from his first wife, Nancy Hardenbergh Denman, and Isabel Denman’sstep-daughter. Nellie never married.

Frank M. Towne (1859-1919) was the son of Smith and Amanda Towne. His siblings were Lester B. (1861-1904),Charles, Florence, Walter (1868-1932, a druggist and photographer), Clarice and Beverly (dates unknown). Photosand printed cards of Petaluma marked “Photo by Towne” were produced by Frank’s son Walter Towne, aka Townethe Druggist, circa 1905-13. He ran the drugstore at 155 Main Street from about 1898 to 1913. This was the samedrug business operated by his father, Smith D. Towne, since 1858. In January 1913, Towne moved his drug businessto 171 Main (south end of the Derby Block, at the southwest corner at Washington), formerly the Maynard/Blackburndrugstores. Towne converted the 155 Main location to The Candy Shop which he operated until September 1915. The171 Main store was sold to druggist Louis James in July 1920 when Towne retired to pursue fruit farming. (See page117 of Adair Heig’s 1982 book History of Petaluma: a California River Town for a photo that shows Towne’s stores at155 and 171 Main Street, circa 1914.)

Learn more about the individuals listed at https://www.petalumapioneers.org/ created by Paula Freund for the“Portraits of Petaluma Pioneers” exhibit of 2017.



https://www.petalumapioneers.org/

https://www.petalumapioneers.org/

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Alexander J. “Zan” Stark (1889-1967)“Public Library - Petaluma Calif.”

Real photo postcard #738, March 1941

California Revealed: “Our Collections-Our Communities” $3800This will allow us to update the upstairs poultry exhibit/displays. We will connect with the oral historiesnow posted on California Revealed. Please see some of the oral histories and audio interviews withthis link! https://calisphere.org/collections/26453/

California Revealed: Cataloged Assistance Award: $3900, The Merton Doss CollectionMerton Doss, a Petaluma native, photographed all aspects of Petaluma social and architectural historyfrom 1969 until his death in 2009. The 1102 slides were donated to the Petaluma History Library Museumin 2011 where they have been in non-archival storage sheets and boxes since. We will be digitizingand preserving the slides.

Sonoma County Community Grant: $2500This will allow us to digitize the McNear Collection that has grown to over 1000 items! The collectionranges from letters and early Petaluma and Marin photographs dating from the 1850s to the 1900s.The letters will be digitized and stored in archival sleeves and boxes. An early Petaluma Banking exhibitwill be developed from this collection. John Augustus McNear, Ezekiel Denman, and Isaac Wickershamto name a few, were banking pioneers of Petaluma and Sonoma County.

We thank both California Revealed and Sonoma County Supervisors for continual support for preservingPetaluma’s precious history!

A w a r d e d G r a n t s

You have made the Petaluma Museum a part of your life.Now, we hope you will consider making the Petaluma

Museum Association a part of your lasting legacy by leavinga gift in your will or trust.

Your bequest will ensure that the PMA remains a vibrant organizationthat welcomes our community in the historic Carnegie Library Buildingand passes down our history to the next generation of Petalumans.To make the PMA a part of your estate plans, contact your financialplanner. To find out more about how your will or trust might sustain oureducational mission, contact Clint Gilbert, PMA Board President, [email protected].


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The inspirational signs on the museum lawn are acombination of two public art projects, the Petaluma ArtChicks and Superhero Unfolding. Created by a localartist, with enthusiastic support from the PetalumaHistorical Library and Museum, the projects share acommon goal: to bolster the human spirit and promotesmiles around town!

Petaluma Art ChicksThe Petaluma Art Chicks made their official debut onthe Museum lawn on Saturday, April 28, 2020, theoriginal date of the 2020 Butter & Eggs Days parade.Created as a response to the COVID-19 crisis andshelter-in-place, they were a simple creative way ofbringing joy, levity and support to the community duringfrightening and uncertain times.

Chick P. is the original “Art Chick,” and a cross-overcharacter to the Superhero Unfolding project. He isPetaluma’s first completely unofficial, unsanctioned,unconventional and unstoppable Superhero!

Chick P. is an amalgamation of Petaluma's agriculturalpast; the tenacity, strength and courage of a vulnerablechick entering an unknown world; and everyone's lovefor emojis. Chick P. is sweet, affectionate, perky,enthusiastic and undeterred. Qualities that can comein quite handy during a crisis.

Every bird in the series, stands on a word representingan aspect of their personality, which reflects a humanquality or attribute. Chick P. is courageous, Scrub J. istenacious, Rave N. is resilient and Swall O. is kind.Their common message, "You got this, Peeps! carriesdual meaning.

Superhero UnfoldingSuperhero Unfolding (SU) is a heart project of theartist, which emerged in 2016, while she was beingtreated for breast cancer. The concept underlying theproject is that inside of each and every human beinglies a superhero ready to awaken, ready to unfold.

A series of public art events for SU were indevelopment at the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. Allevents have been cancelled. Construction is alsohalted on the “Superhero Unfolding Inspiration Station,”an interactive pop-up public art installation, scheduledto launch at the Museum this spring. Funded in partwith a grant from Creative Sonoma, the InspirationStation was scheduled to make several appearancesin Sonoma county.

With SIP in place, the Superhero Unfolding project hasfocused on developing its website to support buddingsuperheroes. The site provides resources, activities,and sources of inspiration, including a daily quote blog.There are also opportunities to participate in the projectonline and to submit an original personally-createdsuperhero drawing to its online gallery.

To find out more about the Petaluma Art Chicks or theSuperhero Unfolding project you can contact the artist,Rayne Madison (aka SweetFrau) through one of herwebsites:www.SuperheroUnfolding.onlinewww.SweetFrau.online

The artist would like to express her appreciation forthe support she has received from the Museum, theCity of Petaluma and the community in making thiswork possible. Thank you, ALL!

by Rayne Madison


www.SuperheroUnfolding.online

www.SweetFrau.online

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Dear Members:

We began as a membership organization with the mission “To preserve the unique history of Petalumaand to provide educational and cultural services to the Community”. Your membership is critical at thistime as we find our way through this transition to a safer museum and a safer research library.

We hope to reopen soon but in the meantime it’s important that you renew your membership. Withoutaccess to our office we are not able to send our regular renewal reminders so please check yourmembership type and expiration date on your membership card.

You can renew online by going to https://www.petalumamuseum.com/join/ and scrolling down to findyour membership type. Please consider upgrading your membership level if you can afford to do so.

Your new membership cards will be mailed once the City lifts the seal on the building and we are allowedto return.

In this newsletter we are only able to list donations and memberships that we have receivedeither through the mail or online during the closure. As soon as we have access to the officerecords we will be able to list the quarterly renewals and donations that came in prior to closureon March 17.

Thank you for your support!

M e m b e r s h i p

Marilyn Gambonini

Brian Gilmore

Evelyn Gurevitch

Marillyn Maslin

Kendra Murray

Tonya Parnak

Angela Ryan

Corienne Schuster

Laverne Stout

Salvatore Taormina

Karl Bundesen / in memory of Herb & Barbara Bundesen

Laverne Stout

Thank you for donating to Kathy Barron-Fries Birthday Fundraiser for the Petaluma MuseumRebecca Bown

Robin Anderson-Bowen

Laura Castillo

Elizabeth Clary

Debbie Countouriotis

Teri Taketa-Graham

Kathleen Hawker

Pam Hoberg

Harry Nieuwboer

Bill & Katherine Rinehart

Tim & Debi Riddle

Geraldine Sbragia

Patti Schwessinger-Hanson

Francesca Smith

Memberships Renewals:

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Summer 2020 Volume 30, Issue 2...portant now as we focus our efforts on developing what I’m calling: Museum 2.0. Our efforts so far broadly fall into three parts: 1. Our HistoryTellers