Since last Thursday was Green Waste pick-up day for our neighborhood, "The Trio" decided to go through a few more boxes of "stuff" (or "treasures" as we stated in a recent blog) in an effort to clean up the garage. (This project has been a "work in progress" for years) "Hammerhead" thought it would be a waste (no pun intended) of time and decided to sit on the sidelines and observe "Me, Myself & I" sift through stacks of old notes, files, magazines and yes - newspapers - like our local Petaluma Argus-Courier and The Press Democrat.

This Sunday, the turning basin will be the site for the Petaluma Sesquicentennial Celebration River Fest. The much-loved "River Festival" will make a return debut from 11 am until 3 pm. Our historic "Petaluma Creek" will be alive with boat races, antique cars, the Petaluma Trolley, and the return of the schooner Alma. What might be lost, however, will be a sense of the changes that have occurred along our historic river over time. Here are a few bits of information about our beloved "River of Change."

The search for interesting tidbits of historical information by "Eagle-Eyes" continues as the City of Petaluma celebrates its Sesquicentennial -

Petaluma was growing in both magnitude and importance.

During the 1870s, Petaluma was coming into its own with new buildings and churches.

The decade of the 1850s saw Petaluma evolve from a small settlement to an official city of over 1500 people. Here are few tidbits of historical information as to how our favorite river town developed over the following ten years, 1860-69.